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Dr. Joseph Hobbs, Chair of the Medical College of Georgia's Department of Family Medicine.

Medical Minute explores healing after a heart attack

Brennan Meagher1 min readSeptember 26, 2016

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GPBAugustaLogo_800x600In 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 way to rejuvenate heart muscle affected by heart attack that involves a brief period of low oxygen combined with a drug known to make cancer cells more susceptible to treatment.

The Medical Minute airs at 8:18 a.m., 1:20 p.m. and 5:18 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday on the 17 GPB radio stations across Georgia. For more Medical Minute episodes, visit the GPB Augusta SoundCloud page.

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Brennan Meagher is a communications coordinator at Augusta University. Contact her at 706-446-4806 or bmeagher@augusta.edu.

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