Amerigroup Community Care of Georgia, Action Ministries Augusta and the Richmond County Sheriff's Office will play host to a Bike Rodeo from 9 a.m. to noon at Action Ministries, 303 Hale St.
Friday, May 24, 2013
She came to establish a new Department of Radiation Oncology at Georgia Regents University but Dr. Feng-Ming Kong believes it could soon become part of a therapy at GRU Cancer Center that is not ...
By Tom Corwin | Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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 | Thursday, May 16, 2013
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 | Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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 | Wednesday, May 8, 2013
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 | Tuesday, May 7, 2013
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 | Monday, May 6, 2013
The health system of Georgia Regents University had a healthier financial quarter but faces many challenges ahead, including increasing numbers of patients who must be watched for little or ...
By Tom Corwin | Thursday, April 25, 2013
Facing a $17 million reduction in Medicare payments alone this year, University Hospital is seeking an alliance with a North Carolina health company to get a better deal on supplies and services.
By Tom Corwin | Thursday, April 25, 2013
An Irish music trio played for patients at the Children's Hospital of Georgia on Wednesday.
By Meg Mirshak | Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Operation Pill Drop is offering a safe way to dispose of unneeded, unused or expired prescription drugs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Kohl's parking lot at Mullins Crossing in Evans.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
An innovative surgical technique uses dye and florescent light during kidney sugery to help better define cancerous tumors.
By Tom Corwin | Thursday, April 18, 2013
Doctors and University hospitals are dropping an appeal of the state's denial for permission to build a free-standing emergency department in Columbia County.
By Tom Corwin | Thursday, April 18, 2013
Standing on the 40-acre site where officials broke ground Wednesday for a $30 million hospital to replace an aging downtown building, Jim Davis, the CEO of University Health Care System, said it ...
By Tom Corwin | Wednesday, April 17, 2013
University Health Care System is set to break ground Wednesday on the hospital's new McDuffie County campus.
Monday, April 15, 2013
For many men, including many over age 70, testing for prostate cancer does not make a lot of sense and carries substantial potential risk from overtesting to overtreatment of what is typically a ...
By Tom Corwin | Monday, April 8, 2013
Augusta Ready Mix painted one of its trucks hot pink and put a local man's picture on the side to draw awareness to breast cancer.
By Tom Corwin | Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Sarah Newman, 88, who was a poor candidate for surgery, got a valve-replacement procedure this week at University Hospital that is less invasive, might get her home quicker, and will improve her ...
By Tom Corwin | Friday, March 29, 2013
Martha DeMore is the first at her doctor's practice to get Kadcyla, which combines the antibody-targeted treatment Herceptin with an additional drug toxic to breast cancer cells.
By Tom Corwin | Thursday, March 28, 2013
Since Brayden Wendorff and his family arrived last week, Richmond County sheriff’s officers and their families have banded together to offer food, money and support.
By Wesley Brown | Wednesday, March 27, 2013
