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Jennifer Hilliard ScottConcerns about the safety of the LGBTQ community, financial health and intimate partner violence can have an effect on physical health among sexual minorities, according to researchers at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Those...
Haley HughesA steel beam was raised in the $62.5 million expansion and renovation project that will transform the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University.
Toni BakerResearchers are developing a portable, painless 3-D ultrasound that can rapidly gauge whether there has been a brain injury.
Kelly JasperAugusta, Ga. – Today, Augusta University launches a new online resource featuring an array of university and health system experts who can be relied on to provide timely, informative interviews. The new Augusta University Expert Center makes it...
Danielle HarrisIn an ongoing effort to bring awareness to sexual violence, Augusta University has partnered with Fort Gordon, Augusta Technical College, and Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services to host events throughout April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness...
The first year of free lung cancer screening in the Augusta, Georgia area found more than double the rate seen in a previous large, national study as well as a Massachusetts-based screening for this number one cancer killer. The higher rates...
Denise ParrishLynn Bill has been named vice president of a new division of correctional health care at Augusta University.
Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Andrew Fire, George D. Smith Professor in Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University, is the inaugural G. Lombard Kelly Lecturer for the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Georgia...
It’s been used to study automobile cruise control systems and population growth of certain animal species, and now researchers think Markov modeling could one day help a woman and her physician better peruse infertility treatment options. Markov...
The 2017 CSRA Heart Walk is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday, March 11, at The Greeneway in North Augusta. For more information, to join a team, or make a donation, visit csraheartwalk.org AUGUSTA, Ga. – If you want a healthy heart, then aim to eat...
Students from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University will find out where they’ll spend the next phase of their training.
Former University of South Carolina All-American pitcher and Augusta University Education Professor Megan Buning has been named to the Southeastern Conference 2017 Class of Women’s Legends – an honor recognizing accomplished former student-athletes...
More than 120 faculty of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University have been recognized with Exemplary Teaching Awards for their contributions to students and residents at the state’s medical school. Awards for undergraduate medical...
GROVETOWN, Ga. – The future of health care is heading to Columbia County. Augusta University leaders gathered Friday at an 82-acre parcel adjacent to Interstate 20 in Grovetown to celebrate the purchase of the property where AU Medical Center will...
Annual fundraiser supports Children’s Hospital of Georgia AUGUSTA, Ga. – You can help provide specialized pediatric care at the not-for-profit Children’s Hospital of Georgia when you order pancakes at IHOP on Tuesday, March 7. During this...
Many of us have noted how our hands and feet swell after eating too much salt. Now scientists are exploring how high salt intake can also make cells throughout the body of females swell, rupture, dump their contents and die, triggering an immune...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A $1 million gift from the Medical College of Georgia Foundation will help establish a new scholarship and further diversify the state’s public medical school. Announced at the Feb. 7 event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the...
Nick GarrettJohn “Jay” Heslen, assistant professor of political science and cyber, has received a $284,434 2017 CyberSecurity Core Curriculum Development Grant from the National Security Agency. One of the primary goals of the CyberSecurity Core Curriculum...
Dr. Adam E. Berman, director of Cardiac Arrhythmia Services at the Medical College of Georgia and Augusta University Health, has been named chief of the Division of Cardiology in the MCG Department of Medicine. Berman, an electrophysiologist and...
Natives of rural Nicaragua disproportionately suffer from chronic kidney disease. The incidence of syphilis in people with end-stage renal disease in America is three times higher than in the general population. There’s little research to indicate...