Augusta University
After seeing the high rate of child abuse in local counties, one Augusta University assistant professor and a team at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia are determined to help prevent children from being abused throughout the Augusta area.
AU Health is temporarily restricting hospital visitation for friends and family age 18 and younger in an effort to help prevent the spread of influenza virus and other circulating respiratory illnesses. In addition, guests who are experiencing flu...
A decade of data indicates the HPV vaccine is safe and effective long term, researchers report.
Researchers have more evidence that males and females are different, this time in the fluid that helps protect the cartilage in their knee joints. They have found in the synovial fluid of this joint, clear differences in the messages cells are...
Media advisory for June 27 EVENT: June 27 is National HIV Testing Day and, in an effort to shed more light on this disease, Augusta University will host free, rapid HIV testing. BACKGROUND: An estimated 1.1 million people in the United States are...
An estimated 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV and Georgia ranks among the highest in the nation for people being diagnosed with the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. June 27 is National...
Physician scientists want to know if a new therapeutic vaccine can prevent or reduce recurrence of cervical cancer in women at high risk for its return.
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...
