Augusta University
Danielle HarrisToday’s woman has a life jammed with work, family and social events. Oftentimes, women get so busy taking care of others that they fail to care for themselves, and this can be dangerous. In honor of National Women’s Health Week, May 8-14, Augusta...
Toni BakerAUGUSTA, Ga. – A series of tests physicians routinely order to help diagnose and follow their patients with an elevated antibody level that is a marker for cancer risk, often do not benefit the patient but do increase health care costs, pathologists...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Low levels of vitamin D in black teens correlates with low activity of a major mechanism for controlling gene expression that may increase their risk of cancer and other disease, researchers report. Their study measured vitamin D...
Kelly JasperAUGUSTA, Ga. – Augusta University’s Arsenal Oak was a longtime symbol of Augusta’s roots and the rich history of its university. The famed 250-year-old oak was cut down in 2004 after succumbing to disease, but not before its acorns were gathered and...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Putting just a tiny piece of the wall of detoxified E. coli into their gut make mice lose their natural sweet tooth, researchers report. Fifteen hours after one small dose is placed in the gut, levels of the satiety hormone leptin go...
Selina Smith, director of the Institute of Public and Preventive Health (IPPH) at Augusta University, has been named president of the Georgia Public Health Association, the state’s leading forum for public health researchers, practitioners and...
The National Science Foundation has awarded Augusta University computer science professor Harley Eades III with a grant to fund his research on attack trees, a visual representation of computer systems used to identify and assess possible threats...
Denise ParrishAUGUSTA, Ga. – Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home is ranked in the nation’s top 15 percent of senior health care providers for patient satisfaction, according to Pinnacle Quality Insight, earning the 2016 Customer Experience Award. This is the second...
Arthur TakahashiAUGUSTA, Ga. – Augusta University will celebrate the homecoming of its inaugural president, Brooks A. Keel, PhD, during a week of events between April 24 and May 1. “It feels good to be back home; home to the city where I grew up; home to this great...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Scientists want to know whether taking antibiotics early in life can disrupt your immune system function lifelong. Regardless of our age, antibiotics at least temporarily wipe out many of the good gut bacteria, or microbiota, that...
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Augusta University College of Education Professor Richard Deaner has been named the recipient of the Board of Regents’ 2016 Teaching Excellence Award, the University System of Georgia’s highest honor for faculty. He will be formally...
Haley HughesLaney-Walker Boulevard is now open to all traffic. All closures were removed Wednesday and there will not be any further traffic detours. Vehicles can again access the road from both 15th Street and R.A. Dent Boulevard. The .36-mile stretch of road...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Augusta University and the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence will publicly sign a memorandum of understanding on Friday, April 15, to share resources and help develop a cyber-trained workforce through education, innovation...
AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 11, 2016) – Public art displays, a candlelight campus march and a community 5k run/walk are planned for Sexual Assault Awareness Month at Augusta University. In partnership with Paine College and Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault...
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Youth aged 13 to 24 make up an estimated 26 percent of all new HIV infections in the United States and over half of youth with HIV do not know they are infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. April 10 is...
Jennifer Hilliard ScottAUGUSTA, Ga. – The fate of an internist, pediatrician and surgeon is in the hands of students at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. All three are aboard a sinking ship, and their only escape is a one-person raft. Who should be...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A study of patients from across the nation with myasthenia gravis is helping determine the incidence of two new antibodies believed to cause the disease, and whether these patients need different treatment strategies. Researchers are...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Some of the simplest, safest lessons to help adolescents combat obesity may be raising their awareness of what they are eating and whether they are even hungry, researchers say. A pilot study of 40 adolescents in Richmond County...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – From developing some of the first oral contraceptives to pioneering telemedicine technologies for faster stroke intervention, doctors at Augusta University and its historic Medical College of Georgia have long been recognized as...
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Augusta University’s health system has generated more than $1.2 billion in revenue for the local and state economy, according to a recent report by the Georgia Hospital Association, the state’s largest hospital trade association. In...