Augusta University
Denise Parrish“Bart’s Heart” wins second place at the 2015 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Cargill H. Alleyne Jr. has a passion for science and medicine, and the distinguished neurosurgeon at Georgia Regents Medical Center hopes to interest future...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – GRHealth was presented the prestigious Harry Orme, M.D., Partnership Award for exemplary Patient- and Family-Centered Care at the national PFCC Conference in October in California. The award was established in 2013 to recognize a...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Health Center Credit Union has won a $10,000 donation for Children’s Hospital of Georgia in the CU Solutions Group’s first annual Share the Love campaign. HCCU helped Augusta’s only children’s hospital get the money in this...
Kelly JasperAUGUSTA, Ga. – Historically, houses of worship have served as places of sanctuary, centers of the community and symbols of peace. But many houses of worship have become targets for recent violence and must prepare for unique threats affecting their...
StaffAUGUSTA, Ga. — The conjoined twins receiving treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital of Georgia died last night due to multiple complex medical complications. The boys—who shared a heart and liver—were delivered by C...
Toni BakerAUGUSTA, Ga. – The stigma of having and treating mental health problems must give way to an integrated educational and health care model that embraces recovery, experts say.
Valerie and Preston Weaver work with Travis Garvin to hang a purple ribbon on a tree outside the Children’s Hospital of Georgia in recognition of Epilepsy Awareness Month in November. Preston, 8, who has Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, became the first...
Danielle HarrisAUGUSTA, Ga. – Conjoined twins sharing a heart and liver were born today at Georgia Regents Medical Center by C-section. The boys were taken to the neonatal intensive care unit at the adjoining Children’s Hospital of Georgia, where they are listed...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Alan J. Herline, a colon and rectal surgeon who established and directed the Colon and Rectal Surgery Program at Vanderbilt University, has worked as an engineer and played professional football, is the inaugural J. Harold...
Update: Brittany Crafton’s conjoined twins were delivered Monday, Nov. 9, at Georgia Regents Medical Center. They are being cared for at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia. AUGUSTA, Ga.- Brittany Crafton was excited the moment her...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The same lipid that helps algae swim toward the light also appears to enable one type of brain cell to keep cerebrospinal fluid moving, researchers report. The lipid is ceramide, long known to help keep skin smooth, and now Medical...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Performing artists Jessye Norman, Russell Joel Brown, Karen Brown and Wycliffe Gordon will share their personal journeys that took them from the streets of Augusta to stages across the globe in the 20-part series “Where I’m...
Christen EngelAUGUSTA, Ga. – The College of Dental Medicine will become the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University, said President Brooks A. Keel during a noon event at the college today. After hearing from students, faculty, staff and alumni about the...
Sharron WallsAUGUSTA, Ga. – Students and faculty in the Georgia Regents University College of Allied Health Sciences will celebrate National Allied Health Professions Week Nov. 1-7. Augusta Mayor Hardie Davis Jr. will issue a proclamation for the week at his...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A cutting-edge procedure at Georgia Regents Medical Center is helping terminal liver cancer patients live longer. “For people who are out of other options, including chemotherapy and surgery, transarterial radioembolization can offer...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Nurses are practical innovators, introducing new methods and ways of thinking to solve problems that plague our health care system. Their role as innovators in healthcare is the focus of a daylong visit from Dr. Diana Mason, former...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – More than 40 pieces of original art – much of it painted by residents of the Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home – will be on public display for the first time at Sacred Heart Cultural Center beginning about a week before the national...
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The American College of Emergency Physicians and the National Disaster Life Support Foundation, based at the Medical College of Georgia, Tuesday announced an agreement to greatly enhance the level of disaster training available to...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – New Morris Eminent Scholar in Art Cheryl Goldsleger presents “Explorations,” a solo exhibition of works at the Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art at Georgia Regents University Goldsleger will discuss her work during an artist talk and...
Haley HughesAccess to the section of Laney-Walker Boulevard that runs through Georgia Regents University’s Health Sciences Campus will change as early as Nov. 9 as construction to enhance the road continues. Vehicles will not be able to access Laney...