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Category Archives: Research
Early life stress may take early toll on heart function
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Early life stress like that experienced by ill newborns appears to take an early toll of the heart, affecting its ability to relax and refill with oxygen-rich blood, researchers report. Rat pups separated from their mothers a few hours each … Continue reading
Georgia Regents Medical Center becomes Georgia’s first Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations has designated Georgia Regents Medical Center as an Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center, making it the only hospital in Georgia and one of less than 20 hospitals nationwide to achieve this designation. Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Cardiovascular Disease, College of Allied Health Sciences, College of Graduate Studies, College of Nursing, Colleges, Faculty, GHSU in the News, Groups, Medical College of Georgia, Neurological Disease, Patient and Family Centered Care, Research, Staff, Students
Tagged first, Georgia Regents Medical Center, Neurological Disease, neuroscience, Primary Stroke Center, stroke
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GRU Cancer Center Director Joins World Oncology Forum to “Stop Cancer Now”
Dr. Samir N. Khleif, Director of the Georgia Regents University Cancer Center, is one of 100 international cancer experts who were invited to participate in the World Oncology Forum (WOF), who are calling on governments around the world today – World Cancer Day – to take urgent action to halt a catastrophic increase in death and suffering from cancer across the globe, and to deliver on commitments they made at the World Health Assembly in May 2012 to cut premature deaths from non-communicable diseases, including cancer, by 25% by 2025. Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Cancer, In the News
Tagged WOF, world cancer day, world oncology forum
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Grant will help fight Georgia’s physician shortage
A $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration will help Georgia Regents University continue its efforts to diversify Georgia’s health care workforce. The five-year grant will continue funding for the Georgia Statewide Area Health Education Center … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Announcements, College of Allied Health Sciences, Colleges, Faculty, Grants, Groups, In the News, Research, Students
Tagged $2.5 million grant, Executive Director Denise Kornegay, five-year grant, Georgia Statewide Area Health Education Center Network, grades K-12, U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
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Fulton named Director of MCG Vascular Biology Center
Dr. David Fulton, a vascular biologist and faculty member in the Vascular Biology Center at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University for more than a decade, is the center’s new Director. Fulton, a Professor in the MCG … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Announcements, Appointments, Cardiovascular Disease, College of Allied Health Sciences, Colleges, Faculty, Groups, In the News, Medical College of Georgia, Research
Tagged American Heart Association, American Heart Association Vascular Endothelial Biology Review Committee, American Journal of Physiology/Heart and Circulatory Physiology, arteriosclerosis, cardiac function, Dr. David Fulton, Dr. Mark Hamrick, Dr. Peter F. Buckley, Frontiers in Oxidant Biology, GRU Senior Vice President for Research, MCG Dean, MCG Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institutes of Health, Professor in the MCG Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, research on cardiovascular disease, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology and Circulation Research, vascular biologist and faculty member in the Vascular Biology Center at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, Vascular Biology Center, vascular inflammation
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Scientists learn more about how inhibitory brain cells get excited
Scientists have found an early step in how the brain’s inhibitory cells get excited. A natural balance of excitement and inhibition keeps the brain from firing electrical impulses randomly and excessively, resulting in problems such as schizophrenia and seizures. However … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Faculty, Groups, Medical College of Georgia, Neurological Disease, Research
Tagged AMPA, brain development, Cancer, Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, Dr. Lin Mei, ErbB4, erbin, GABA, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Neuroscience, human development, inhibitory brain cells, interneurons, Nature Neuroscience, neuregulin-1, Neuron, neurotransmitter glutamate, NMDA receptor, protein erbin, pyramidal cells, Schizophrenia, stargazing, TARP gamma-2
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$1.67 million grant supports possible cure methodology for deadly form of leukemia
Georgia Regents University cancer researchers are expanding the reach of an easy-to-use algorithm that could keep 30 percent of patients with a rare but deadly form of leukemia from dying within the first month of diagnosis. Continue reading
Posted in Cancer, Medical College of Georgia
Tagged APL, Cancer, Cheely, GHSU in the News, Hematology/Oncology, Jillella, Kota, leukemia, oncology
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New technology provides rapid diagnosis of respiratory illness
Georgia Regents Health System physicians now have a quick, thorough method to identify the viruses and bacteria causing respiratory illness. Within an hour the technique, called polymerase chain reaction, determines which of 21 common viruses and bacteria are causing coughing, … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Colleges, Faculty, Groups, Infection and Inflammation, Medical College of Georgia, Research
Tagged BioFire Diagnostics, causing coughing, Chief of the MCG Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, common cold, Dr. Christine M. Litwin, Dr. Dennis L. Murray, hacking, influenza virus, Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, metapneumovirus, polymerase chain reaction, Professor in the Medical College of Georgia Department of Pathology, respiratory illness, RNA; DNA, Tamiflu, University of Utah, wheezing and other respiratory symptoms
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Knology of Augusta Raises More Than $7,000 in First Annual Pajama Run
Augusta, GA (Dec. 27, 2012) – Knology of Augusta – a leading cable, digital phone and high-speed Internet services provider – today announced it will donate $7,830 to the Georgia Health Sciences University Cancer Center to support research for the treatment and prevention of cancers below the waist. Continue reading
Georgia Regents University will Go Red
Georgia Regents University will hold several events to celebrate the American Heart Association’s Go Red Movement throughout the month of February. The movement was established in 2004 by the AHA to raise awareness of heart disease as the number one killer of women. Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Cardiovascular Disease, Events, Faculty, Groups, Research, Staff, Students
Tagged American Heart Association, Go Red
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