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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 a gene that can...
Toni BakerAUGUSTA, Ga. – A study of patients from across the nation with myasthenia gravis is helping determine the incidence of two new antibodies believed to cause the disease, and...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Some of the simplest, safest lessons to help adolescents combat obesity may be raising their awareness of what they are eating and whether they are even hungry...
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 what scientists...
Nick GarrettEvery year, physicians in the U.S. see more than 320 million patients. Most put in 40- to 60-hour workweeks. One in four puts in even more. In Augusta University’s...
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...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – When mutated, a gene known for its ability to repair DNA, appears to instead cause breast cancer, scientists report. The gene GT198, whether mutated by genetics...
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...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Fatness is clearly linked to cardiovascular disease, but scientists want to find why the unhealthy pair tend to go hand-in-hand and how to break up their...
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 connection...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A low-salt diet does not necessarily translate to stronger bones in postmenopausal women, physician-scientists report. “When we started the study, we thought we...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A recent study of a handful of patients supports mounting evidence that targeted suppression of inflammation packaged with standard therapy can improve the...
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 trends in...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – There’s no doubt estrogen plays a big role in the differences between males and females, and now researchers want to know if it also helps explain emerging sex...
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...
Brennan MeagherIn 2014, Drew Dawson, WACG station manager, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, and Toni Baker, MCG communications...
In 2005, Cheryl Goldsleger, Augusta University’s William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art, had an exhibition at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. When she returned...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Researchers have new insight into the complex interchange that can raise blood levels of unhealthy lipids, or fat, in type 1 diabetes, and early evidence that 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, talks about a protein that...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – In the face of a disrupted circadian rhythm, a low-salt diet and a hormone known to constrict blood vessels have the same unhealthy result: elevated resting blood...