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Kelly JasperAugusta University students volunteer at annual health fair AUGUSTA, Ga. – With a higher mortality rate than most other industrial jobs, farming is one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States. But access to preventive screenings may reduce...
Danielle HarrisU.S. Army veteran and Augusta University graduate student Cody Ward has been named a 2016 Tillman Military Scholar. In addition to Ward being one of 60 selected from over 2,000 applicants, he is the second recipient for Augusta University to receive...
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 how a common pain medicine may actually help preserve our vision as well. The...
Toni BakerProducing more small fat cells and “beige” fat may reduce cardiovascular risk A high-fat diet makes your fat cells larger, inflamed and dysfunctional, putting you at increased risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Now, scientists want to...
In an effort to help schools alleviate the stress on school budgets, the Children’s Hospital of Georgia partnered with Huddle Inc.’s Make It Better program to provide 23 local elementary schools with medical supplies. Huddle Inc. works with...
Eric JohnsonIn this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, talks about new frontiers in the battle against organ rejection among transplant patients...
Pulmonary hypertension is a highly lethal disease that transforms the thin, flexible vasculature of the lungs into thick, dysfunctional blood vessels that can kill. Scientists believe that a protein highly expressed in the deadly disease is a major...
Steven UhlesA gift of $1.4 million is being made to the Georgia Cancer Center and the Children’s Hospital of Georgia. The gift will fund the critical pediatric cancer research at the cancer center, the Child Life Program and other areas of need at CHOG. The...
A pain medicine that potently activates a receptor vital to a healthy retina appears to help preserve vision in a model of severe retinal degeneration, scientists report. Potentially blinding diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and macular...
Khleif to participate in White House discussion to improve patient access to records AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Samir N. Khleif will represent the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University at the National Cancer Moonshot Summit held June 29 at Howard...
A molecule that enables strong communication between our brain and muscles appears to also aid essential communication between our neurons, scientists report. On the surface of our numerous star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes, they have found...
StaffIn this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, talks about new efforts to protect kidneys from damage or destruction due to chemotherapy. The...
Whether ablation of the highest-risk heart arrhythmia is best handled by a robot or the hands of an electrophysiologist should be answered by an international comparison of the two. These are high-risk scenarios where physicians first identity the...
Cisplatin is a common, powerful chemotherapy agent used for a wide range of cancers such as breast, ovarian and lung, that in a handful of days can also permanently damage or destroy patients’ kidneys. Now researchers want to turn the tide by...
Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s Disease are among the leading causes of death of American men, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With June being Men’s Health Month, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chair of Augusta...
Nick GarrettMerry Ma, a graduate research assistant in the Medical College of Georgia’s Brann Lab, and Xiangdong Sun, a postdoctoral fellow in MCG’s Mei Lab, were awarded for their studies during Veterans Administration Research Week at Charlie...
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, talks about newly discovered antibodies that help track Myesthenia Gravis. The Medical Minute...
A test that looks at the genetic expression of breast cancer cells to assess the 10-year recurrence risk and help physicians and patients make more selective treatment choices is now available at the Medical College of Georgia and the Georgia Cancer...
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, talks about two chemotherapy drugs that affect two key ways stem cells make breast cancer. The...
AUGUSTA, GA – Babies born at both low and high birthweights appear to be at increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, researchers report. For reasons that remain unclear at least in the smaller babies, both birthweight...