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Toni BakerMany of us have noted how our hands and feet swell after eating too much salt. Now scientists are exploring how high salt intake can also make cells throughout the body of females swell, rupture, dump their contents and die, triggering an immune...
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 cells dying as a result of diabetes dump their contents, activating a natural...
Jennifer Hilliard ScottNatives of rural Nicaragua disproportionately suffer from chronic kidney disease. The incidence of syphilis in people with end-stage renal disease in America is three times higher than in the general population. There’s little research to indicate...
Denise ParrishA cannabis oil study led by Augusta University is showing promise in the fight against childhood epilepsy. Dr. Yong Park, an epileptologist at Children’s Hospital of Georgia, is the principal investigator in the study of Epidiolex involving...
Constant infusion of a drug now used intermittently to “rescue” patients with Parkinson’s from bouts of immobility may also help avoid these debilitating symptoms and smooth out their movement throughout the day, physician-scientists say. “As...
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 possible target for treatment of a gene mutation that contributes to...
StaffA researcher in Augusta is exploring the use of spiritual therapy to treat veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Nagy Youssef, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at Augusta University, is conducting a study...
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 salt intake can make cells throughout the body swell, rupture, dump their...
It’s been known for decades that a bacterial infection can raise your blood pressure short term, but now scientists are putting together the pieces of how our own dying cells can fuel chronically high, destructive pressure. Quite literally billions...
Immune receptor that’s typically activated by bacteria is a major contributor to bladder dysfunction
Bladder dysfunction is a reality for about half of patients with diabetes and now scientists have evidence that an immune system receptor that’s more typically activated by bacteria is a major contributor. In the face of diabetes, scientists have...
Danielle HarrisResearch to address the needs of autistic adults remains relatively unchartered territory, but Augusta University Occupational Therapist Teal Benevides hopes to shed light on this population’s critical needs in her latest project “Priority Setting...
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 ways our scientists are investigating “misbehavior” among receptors...
Receptors on the surface of our cells enable a wide variety of functions from our sense of smell to memory. Now scientists are learning more about the constant export of these receptors from inside the cell where they are made, to the cell surface...
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 potential new use for an established Parkinson’s Disease treatment which...
Mutations in a gene that should enable memories and a sense of direction instead can result in imprecise communication between neurons that contributes to symptoms of schizophrenia, scientists report. They found that dramatically reducing the amount...
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 man-made molecule that shows tremendous promise in combating diabetic...
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 “gene scissors” and their role in correcting a gene defect that...
Cell powerhouses are typically long and lean, but with brain injury such as stroke or trauma, they can quickly become bloated and dysfunctional, say scientists who documented the phenomena in real time for the first time in a living brain. 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, discusses a small international study of individuals living with young people affected by...
A 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...