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Toni BakerBeige fat cells, which are typically intermingled with white fat cells in the subcutaneous fat present on “pear shaped” people, mediate subcutaneous fat’s brain protection, bringing down inflammation and providing protection from dementia.
Jennifer Hilliard ScottSummer research program aims to encourage more medical students to consider a career in aging research and clinical care — especially important with the world's rapidly aging population.
Dr. Julie A. Kurek, a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders, has been appointed director of the Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence at the Medical College of Georgia and Augusta University Health.
Denise ParrishThe plaza immediately outside the new Science and Mathematics building will be named for Bank of America.
Heather HenleyAugusta University and AU Health System provided a $2.7 billion boost to the state economy in fiscal year 2020, according to a new report from the University System of Georgia.
Cardiovascular disease and cancer, the nation’s top two killers, share common ground like obesity and chronic inflammation, as well as a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. A new American Heart Association-funded center at the Medical...
An internal transporter that enables us to use the copper we consume in foods like shellfish and nuts to enable a host of vital body functions also has the essential role of protecting the receptor that enables us to grow new blood vessels when ours...
Dr. Stanton Royer, an emergency medicine physician who just finished his residency training program at the Medical College of Georgia and Augusta University Health, is the recipient of the Walter J. Moore Outstanding Housestaff Award.
Psoriasis treatment, which likely helps restore the natural frontline barrier protection of the skin, reduces infection rates and improves survival for people on dialysis, indicating its potentially important role in better managing kidney failure
Dr. Richard A. McIndoe, bioinformatics expert and associate director of the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, is leading a $6.2 million federally funded initiative to support highly innovative research...
Dr. Christy Ledford has been named Curtis G. Hames, MD, Distinguished Chair in Family Medicine.
In a normally reciprocal relationship that appears to go awry with age, sufficient tryptophan, which we consume in foods like milk, turkey, chicken and oats, helps keep our microbiota healthy. A healthy microbiota in turn helps ensure that...
Lisa KaylorThe Augusta University Health System Board of Directors will be held from 1-3 p.m. Thursday, June 24.
Kiwanis $100,000 pledge given in celebration of club's 100 years of service in Augusta.
Dr. Amir Mian, former interim medical director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, is the new chief of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical...
A plant-based diet appears to afford significant protection to rats bred to become hypertensive on a high-salt diet, scientists report. When the rats become pregnant, the whole grain diet also protects the mothers and their offspring from deadly...
MCG researchers can train civilians to "break" camouflage in less that one second. Now they want to know if they're breaking camouflage or simply sensing something is amiss, something that's significant in real world circumstances, where a sniper...
Several community leaders have committed $300,000 to help continue to fund a Medical College of Georgia study examining the long-term neurological impact of COVID-19.
Chris CurryWhile chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, and immunotherapy are the treatment options used most often for cancer patients, a new technique that may offer the most effective way to eradicate cancer cells comes from inside the patient’s own body.
As people begin to gather again, more signs of child abuse will come to light, says an expert at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.