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Toni BakerCardiovascular disease and cancer, the nation’s top two killers, share common ground like obesity and chronic inflammation, as well as a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. A new American Heart Association-funded center at the Medical...
An internal transporter that enables us to use the copper we consume in foods like shellfish and nuts to enable a host of vital body functions also has the essential role of protecting the receptor that enables us to grow new blood vessels when ours...
Stacey EidsonDr. Laura Williamson, director of the Center for Bioethics and Health Policy at Augusta University, studies the ethical impact of mandating childhood vaccinations.
Currently, an estimated 1.4 million Georgians are 65 and older, but that number is expected to jump significantly over the next decade. Augusta University is focused on a three-year recruitment effort to grow the university’s research footprint in...
Psoriasis treatment, which likely helps restore the natural frontline barrier protection of the skin, reduces infection rates and improves survival for people on dialysis, indicating its potentially important role in better managing kidney failure
Dr. Richard A. McIndoe, bioinformatics expert and associate director of the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, is leading a $6.2 million federally funded initiative to support highly innovative research...
In a normally reciprocal relationship that appears to go awry with age, sufficient tryptophan, which we consume in foods like milk, turkey, chicken and oats, helps keep our microbiota healthy. A healthy microbiota in turn helps ensure that...
A plant-based diet appears to afford significant protection to rats bred to become hypertensive on a high-salt diet, scientists report. When the rats become pregnant, the whole grain diet also protects the mothers and their offspring from deadly...
MCG researchers can train civilians to "break" camouflage in less that one second. Now they want to know if they're breaking camouflage or simply sensing something is amiss, something that's significant in real world circumstances, where a sniper...
Jennifer Hilliard ScottSeveral community leaders have committed $300,000 to help continue to fund a Medical College of Georgia study examining the long-term neurological impact of COVID-19.
Being unable to get time off from work and being “nervous” about seeing a health care provider were among many cited reasons for not always getting timely survivorship care, investigators at the Medical College of Georgia and Georgia Cancer Center...
Looking to improve organ transplant success, researchers are working to learn more about how an immune molecule, which also protects a fetus, helps protect some transplanted kidneys, and to develop a synthetic version of that molecule that could...
Dr. Hedong Li is principal investigator on a two-year, $423,000 Exploratory/Development Research grant from the National Institutes of Health that is enabling his team to use a construct he has engineered to aid repair of an injured spinal cord by...
Younger and younger women are getting cardiovascular disease. Why? Their salt sensitivity and obesity have caused them to lose the natural protection youth and estrogen provide, MCG scientists say.
The COVID pandemic appears to have triggered a big increase in insomnia disorder among health care workers at a medical-school affiliated health system, with the highest rates surprisingly among those who spent less time in direct patient care.
Georgia Rehabilitation Institute granted $65,722 to Augusta University to expand the capabilities of the medical sculpture lab for the Department of Medical Illustration in the College of Allied Health Sciences.
Christen EngelA new transdisciplinary faculty research cluster in Inflamm-Aging and Brain Aging will be the focus of a three-year recruitment effort to grow Augusta University’s research footprint.
MCG investigators are eyeing the non-pulmonary effects of cystic fibrosis, like barriers to nutrition and exercise, to help improve and increase the lifespan of people with the disease.
Danielle HarrisMCG researcher to lead a study in learning how cancer treatment might improve the quality of life of those living with HHT.
Medical College of Georgia investigators report a significant association between a faster decrease in resting heart rate from childhood to adulthood and a larger left ventricle, an indicator that cardiovascular disease may be on the horizon.