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Brennan MeagherIn this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses a small international study of individuals living with young people affected by...
Toni BakerA more powerful version of an anti-inflammatory molecule already circulating in our blood may help protect our vision in the face of diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy resulting from high circulating levels of glucose is the leading cause of blindness...
Scientists are using “gene scissors” to cut off the code of a defective gene that results in progressively weaker muscles and death in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and replace it with a synthetic code they hope will one day restore healthy life to...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses the relatively simple mathematical logic that guides how the billions of neurons...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses the “motor cars” inside our cells that deliver proteins to the...
Our hearts use fat for fuel but as with the rest of our bodies, it’s all about balance. Both too few and too many of the small lipid droplets that our heart cells burn for energy can cause heart failure, said Dr. Weiqin Chen, molecular biologist in...
Much like motors power our cars, they also ensure that proteins get to the right place in our cells, and a wide variety of diseases – from cancer to heart problems – can result when they don’t. Now scientists have evidence of more flexibility and a...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses the dynamics between a gene called BSCL2 and a protein called ATGL, and what...
Kelly JasperA new theory suggests human thought can be boiled down to an algorithm. Research by Dr. Joe Tsien, neuroscientist at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, suggests that our brain power is based on “a relatively simple...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses how the hormone leptin may be prompting the fat packed around the organs of obese...
Researchers are beginning to find puzzling new links between obesity, memory loss and dementia, according to a new article in The Guardian that included research by Dr. Alexis M. Stranahan, neuroscientist in the Department of Neuroscience and...
A huge colony of receptors must be optimally positioned and functioning on our muscle cells for our brains to talk with our bodies so we can walk and breathe. Now scientists have found that a protein believed to help anchor that city of receptors...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses the role of the protein “Rapsyn” in potential new treatments for...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses Vitamin K, and whether it is an effective, inexpensive way to help reduce...
Our brains have a basic algorithm that enables us to not just recognize a traditional Thanksgiving meal, but the intelligence to ponder the broader implications of a bountiful harvest as well as good family and friends. “A relatively simple...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses a clinical trial aimed at reversing premature ovarian failure using stem cells...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Sexual Medicine Society of North America has renamed its Lifetime Achievement Award to honor Dr. Ronald W. Lewis, urologist and expert in sexual dysfunction at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Lewis, a pioneer...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The length of your telomeres appears to be a window into your heart health and longevity, and scientists are measuring them to see if vitamin D and omega-3 supplements really improve both. “Many people take these supplements every day...
In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses new research that hopes to shed light on whether vitamin D and omega 3...
Researchers want to know whether a vitamin K supplement is an effective, inexpensive way to help reduce the cardiovascular risk of obese children. They believe the vitamin, found in green leafy vegetables and made by the bacteria in our gut when we...