Scientists want to know more about how an inexpensive, low-risk treatment may improve recovery from the most deadly type of stroke. Called remote ischemic conditioning, or RIC, it involves successive bouts of compressing then relaxing an arm or leg...
Researchers are trying to find ways to break the "positive feedback loop of tissue damage which leads to inflammation which leads to more tissue damage and more inflammation" in TBI's.
Seven faculty members received awards for their excellence in research and teaching at Augusta University.
In the hours and days after a traumatic brain injury, inflammation inside the brain can accelerate to the point that more damage occurs, says a scientist working to better understand whether interventions like cannabinoids can improve patient...
Cannabidiol, or CBD, may help reduce the cytokine storm and excessive lung inflammation that is killing many patients with COVID-19, researchers say.
Successive bouts of compressing then relaxing a limb with a blood pressure-like cuff to prepare the brain to better weather the lack of oxygen that occurs in stroke is one of six approaches being evaluated in the first national, head-on comparison...
A crane will block AUMC driveway March 17. Learn what the closure has to do with AU Health's innovative equipment and cutting-edge treatments.
Dr. Fernando L. Vale, vice chair of the Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, is the new chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta...
All her life Anna Grace hated hugs. A surgery at Children's Hospital of Georgia changed that.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 6, 2018) – Immune cells that are first responders to a traumatic brain injury appear to also contribute to the secondary damage that can occur even days later, scientists say. The NETs – or neutrophil extracellular traps – these...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A receptor on our immune cells that can detect both the heat of a red chili pepper and the extreme physical heat of a pizza oven may help protect the brain following a traumatic brain injury, scientists say. A third of patients...
The Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University is trying to make the understanding and treatment of brain maladies easier, and a collaboration with the College of Education is helping to make that happen.
Annual Cares For Kids Radiothon and CMN Hospitals Celebration will be combined Dec. 7-9 to raise funds for Children's Hospital of Georgia.
Two-year-old Adalyn Dempsey, of Dearing, toddled around a playroom on the fourth floor of the Children’s Hospital of Georgia at Augusta University, blissfully unaware she has a serious medical condition that also connects her to a very famous golfer...
Young Kaniya Collins had a brain bleed four months ago that nearly killed her. But thanks to the teamwork of neurosurgeons Ian Heger at Children’s Hospital of Georgia and Cargill Alleyne at AU Medical Center, the 9 year old is doing well...
There once was a girl named Joan who was about to eat dinner at home. Her face was quite glum. I hate milk, she said with a groan. At eight o’clock in walked her Dad. Drink your milk, Joan, or I will be mad. Milk keeps your bones strong and...
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...
Augusta University’s health system has completed the rigorous standards defined by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers in order to retain level 4 status – the highest accreditation possible – for its comprehensive adult and pediatric...
Happy New Year, Heroes! Every week, Jagwire highlights the exceptional care shown by our GRHealth medical professionals in a segment we like to call “Heroes in Health Care.” This week’s installment begins with a Heroes in Health Care...
“Bart’s Heart” wins second place at the 2015 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Cargill H. Alleyne Jr. has a passion for science and medicine, and the distinguished neurosurgeon at Georgia Regents Medical Center hopes to interest future...
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