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Arthur TakahashiAugusta University is launching a new degree program to teach students how to fight a cyberwar and combat terrorism through intelligence gathering and policymaking.
Denise ParrishDuring the season of giving, the Children's Hospital of Georgia is receiving significant gift donations from a local Kiwanis club and Resolute Forest Products.
Toni BakerScientists have shown that a medicine prescribed for severe pain can help preserve vision in a model of severe, blinding retinal degeneration. Now they want to know more about how it works.
Haley HughesWhen downtown Augusta lights up for the holiday season in December, so too will the Augusta University shields at Augusta University on Broad.
A decade of data indicates the HPV vaccine is safe and effective long term, researchers report.
Jennifer Hilliard ScottDr. Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao, a mathematical modeler in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, is the leading coeditor of two new volumes of the Handbook of Statistics series. Rao edited...
Annual Cares For Kids Radiothon and CMN Hospitals Celebration will be combined Dec. 7-9 to raise funds for Children's Hospital of Georgia.
Patients diagnosed with the most common form of leukemia who also have high levels of an enzyme known to suppress the immune system are most likely to die early, researchers say. High levels of this enzyme, indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase, or IDO, at...
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Nugget, a 2-year-old Golden Retriever, officially joins the Children’s Hospital of Georgia staff as a full-time facility dog Friday.
Danielle HarrisSaliva is often considered one of the most overlooked components of our overall health.
The Rev. William Jeffrey Flowers, director of Pastoral Care at Augusta University Health, has been named a 2017 Hospital Hero by the Georgia Hospital Association.
Chris CurryNearly 500 people living in the CSRA learned what changes they need to make to live a healthier lifestyle and lower their risk for developing the deadliest form of cancer.
Oxidative stress plays a big role in the brain cell loss that occurs in Parkinson’s disease. Now scientists have their sights on a protein that inhibits one of the body’s natural protections against it. The blocker is Bach1, a protein and...
Augusta University students will honor 103 individuals who have donated their body to health sciences education at the annual Body Donor Memorial Service at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10.
The Medical College of Georgia and Augusta University Health have joined the first large national clinical trial to determine if bone marrow transplantation should be part of the standard of care for patients with sickle cell disease. The National...
Augusta University welcomes renowned authors Patrick Phillips and Drew Lanham as the keynote speakers for the 2017 Sand Hill Writers Series. This free seminar will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Oct. 23 on the Summerville Campus in the Jaguar Student...
The next meeting of the Augusta University Health System Board is scheduled for 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia, 1446 Harper St., in first-floor conference room BT-1810.
We know that too much body fat is generally bad for our cardiovascular system, and now scientists are learning more about how too little fat yields some of the same damage. Their goals include determining whether leptin replacement therapy for...
Sara CarneyThe College of Nursing (CON) and the Office of Governmental Affairs at Augusta University will host a meeting of the Senate Study Committee on Barriers to Georgians’ Access to Adequate Healthcare (SR188), which will be open to the public. The...