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Denise ParrishBrain surgery helps Milledgeville toddler cope with rare disease AUGUSTA, Ga. – Amelia St. John was talking and toddling like any other two-year-old until a series of seizures and hospitalizations practically paralyzed her. Ami, as her parents call...
Kelly JasperMedia Advisory for Tuesday, Dec. 1 What: Free, rapid HIV testing, a panel on the history of stigma and HIV, and a luminary lighting are planned to mark World AIDS Day at Georgia Regents University. Background: World AIDS Day is traditionally held on...
Danielle HarrisAUGUSTA, Ga.— Kick off the holiday season with legendary jazz musician Wycliffe Gordon as he teams up with Georgia Regents University’s Department of Music to present the Wycliffe Gordon and Friends Holiday Concert at 7:30p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1, in...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Georgia Regents University has been named an Engine of Opportunity school by the U.S. Department of Education for offering affordable education to low-income students and contributing to their mobility into the middle class. The...
Toni BakerAUGUSTA, Ga. – When a high-fat diet causes us to become obese, it also appears to prompt normally bustling immune cells in our brain to become sedentary and start consuming the connections between our neurons, scientists say. The good news is going...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – It’s a fairly common genetic condition that can surface as a series of dark skin spots and result in a host of maladies from tumors to premature cardiovascular disease. Medical College of Georgia researchers hope their studies of how...
“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...
AUGUSTA, 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...
AUGUSTA, 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...
AUGUSTA, 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...