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Danielle HarrisPlay golf? Orthopaedic trauma expert Dr. James Blair offers tips on how to play it safe when hitting the green.
Toni BakerNew gene editing technology, prime editing, snips only a single strand of the double-stranded DNA. CRISPR makes double-strand cuts, which can be lethal to cells, and produces...
Learn how a researcher at the Georgia Cancer Center is working to eliminate Georgia's breast cancer disparities.
As the name implies, induced pluripotent stem cells can become any type of cell in our body, and scientists have evidence that when they prompt them to become muscle progenitor...
Jennifer Hilliard ScottWhen COVID-19 forced medical students out of classrooms and clinical rotations, faculty and staff at the Medical College of Georgia provided an online platform for learning about...
Dr. Brian K. Stansfield, a neonatologist and federally funded investigator at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and the Children’s Hospital of Georgia, has been...
Denise ParrishAU Health promotes one of its own to new facilities post.
Dr. Sharon Beall, a pediatrician who specializes in the care of children who are living with life-limiting conditions, is the new medical director for the Pediatric Palliative...
Augusta University Health is offering COVID-19 vaccine appointments to eligible public and private K-12 educators and caregivers in Georgia.
CBD normalizes levels and function of two proteins - TREM2 and IL-33 - key to reducing the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaque, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, and improves...
Chris CurryMost everybody shares the same reaction to learning they have to undergo a colonoscopy. However, Kenneth J. Vega, MD, has made it his mission to turn anxiety, fear, and stress...
Henry Hanks“It will be an honor to join the top-notch team at GWVNH to provide outstanding care to some of America’s war heroes in this challenging season of their lives.”
$1.8 million NCI grant enables exploration of cancer-fighting compound isolated from Moroccan fungus
MCG and Georgia Cancer Center scientists have early evidence that the peptide EnnA, isolated from a fungus living symbiotically with a flowering plant known for its penchant of...
Augusta University Health is named among Georgia's best for patient safety.
Henson is a neuro-oncologist with more than two decades of experience treating patients with brain tumors and other tumors of the nervous system.
Scientists want to know more about how an inexpensive, low-risk treatment may improve recovery from the most deadly type of stroke. Called remote ischemic conditioning, or RIC, it...
Young pregnant women, who appear to have fully recovered from an acute injury that reduced their kidney function, have higher rates of significant problems like preeclampsia and...
The skeleton’s ability to adapt to mechanical loading — the forces put on bone by both gravity and muscle in response to movement — is critical to bone health, and circumstances...
Chronic stress that changes the function of a tiny group of neurons known to be important to energy homeostasis in the body as well prompting us to pick up a fork when we are...
Tried and true remedies and long-term changes to diet and behavior can help keep kids healthy during cold and flu season.