Saturday, May 18, 2013

Don't hit diet, exercise routines full-force

When you rush back to doing something you haven't for a while, whether it's diet or exercise, you're likely to fail or injure yourself.
By Brian Duewel

Thursday, May 16, 2013

University CEO see future cuts, changes

University Hospital CEO Jim Davis said at a Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce luncheon that big reductions in funding will lead to further cost-cutting and drive hospital consolidating and ...
By Tom Corwin

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Group pushing for smoking ban

Advocates for a smoke-free environment for all workers are once again pushing an ordinance that would seek to ban smoking in public places in Augusta.
By Tom Corwin

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Regents OK GRU renovations, planning

ATLANTA - Two renovation projects at Georgia Regents University got the go-ahead Tuesday from the University System of Georgia's Board of Regents which also approved the drafting of a new master ...
By Walter C. Jones

Friday, May 10, 2013

Arguments made in Augusta battle over health insurance

The legal battle over which company will manage Augusta city employees’ self-insured health insurance fund entered into the closing rounds Friday.
By Sandy Hodson

Nearly 900 first to get GRU degree

Erica was the first of 875 graduates who received their degrees from the university that arose from the consolidation of Augusta State and Georgia Health Sciences universities earlier this year.
By Tom Corwin

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Top award for compassion goes to GRU student

When her classmates, instructors and patients want to pull out an example of Elizabeth Prince-Coleman's compassionate care, there are so many to choose from.
By Tom Corwin

MCG grads urged to focus on disease prevention

Speaking Thursday at the Medical College of Georgia's Hooding Ceremony, Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, said that for too long medicine has focused on ...
By Tom Corwin

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

GRU grad follows parents' paths

At the Hooding Ceremony for Medical College of Georgia on Thursday, Preethi Ganapathy will receive the rare honor of receiving the hood from both her mother and father, both doctors at GRU.
By Tom Corwin

Doctors tops charges but more pay comes to GRMC

Doctors Hospital generally had the highest charges among Augusta hospitals for common procedures, including the highest charge for a procedure in Georgia.
By Tom Corwin and Sandy Hodson

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Budget includes funds for building, services at GRU

The money includes $45 million to help build a new building that could garner an important national designation but also funds to establish outreach and prevention and fund clinical trials in new ...
By Tom Corwin

Monday, May 6, 2013

VA doctor indicted in theft

A doctor at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center has been suspended after he got free drugs the state says he wasn't entitled to, an indictment says.
By Tom Corwin and Sandy Hodson

Friday, May 3, 2013

Doctor praised at annual address

Dr. Anand Jillella, the chief of hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplant at GRU, was honored with the Medical College of Georgia faculty Professionalism Award during Dean Peter F. Buckley's ...
By Tom Corwin

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Augustans help guide federal research

Of the 84 people serving on advisory panels for a new institute designed to make sure federal research is addressing issues important to patients, two are from Augusta.
By Tom Corwin

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Graniteville event to focus on aftermath of train wreck

The effects in the aftermath of the wreck have been studied for the last couple of years by researchers, and their findings will be presented Saturday at a community forum in Graniteville.
By Tom Corwin

Ga. colonoscopy patients face infection risk

ATLANTA -- An Atlanta surgery center is warning 456 patients that their colonoscopies might have put them at risk of HIV.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Mill campuses are 'city effort,' Azziz says

While he calls the early plans to convert former Augusta mills into campuses for Georgia Regents University a potential "game-changer," President Ricardo Azziz said it is still a "city effort" ...
By Tom Corwin

New programs, scholarships key growth at GRU

In his annual State of the University address, Georgia Regents University President Ricardo Azziz outlined ambitious plans to grow programs, sports and especially student enrollment and research ...
By Tom Corwin

Monday, April 29, 2013

New GRU Center strengthens pharmacy tie with UGA

An old antibiotic could prove to be a new treatment for a devastating type of stroke that has no good remedies, said researchers at Georgia Regents University and the University of Georgia College ...
By Tom Corwin

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Programs help woman get first home

Pensola Parsons was literally on the edge of throwing her life away Oct. 17, 2001, her daughter's birthday, deep in the throes of drug and alcohol abuse before she had an epiphany.
By Tom Corwin
Top headlines

Analysis finds bulk of club crime reports on southside

During the past five years, while sheriff's deputies were summoned to 27 downtown clubs 227 times, officers responded to 312 other incidents - including three homicides - at 26 clubs in south Augusta.
Loading...