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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...
Toni BakerWhether 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...
Danielle HarrisHeart 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...
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 “mindfulness-based eating awareness training, a new program to combat obesity. The...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – While considerable advances have been made in understanding the biology and treatment of schizophrenia, patients and physicians continue to face tough challenges, says the 2015-16 winner of the University of Pennsylvania Edward A...
“Optimistic,” “dedicated” and “nurturing” are a few of the sentiments used to describe Physician Assistant Program graduate Joshua Pumroy, this year’s winner of the John F. Beard Award for Compassionate Care at Augusta University...
Kelly JasperMindfulness might not be just for your mind, according to Inside Higher Ed’s Academic Minute podcast. The audio clip features Augusta University’s Vernon Barnes, who explained how mindful eating may be a healthy way to lose weight...
Steven UhlesThe Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University is celebrating its expansion by asking everyone with a cancer story to come write on its walls. Soon demolition will begin on the Georgia Cancer Center’s M. Bert Storey Research building – the first...
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 the life-long impact antibiotic use may have on the immune system of young children...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Two existing chemotherapy drugs appear to be a powerful pair in targeting errant stem cells that are making breast cancer and enabling its spread and recurrence, scientists report. A combination of the drugs, 5-azacytidine and...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Brian K. Stansfield, neonatologist at Children’s Hospital of Georgia and a 2004 graduate of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, has received the 2016 Clinical Science Young Investigator Award from the...
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, examines the impact even a tiny piece of detoxified E. coli can have on a lifelong sweet tooth...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A series of tests physicians routinely order to help diagnose and follow their patients with an elevated antibody level that is a marker for cancer risk, often do not benefit the patient but do increase health care costs, pathologists...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Low levels of vitamin D in black teens correlates with low activity of a major mechanism for controlling gene expression that may increase their risk of cancer and other disease, researchers report. Their study measured vitamin D...