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Thyroid surgery safe for older patients, study finds Publish Date: 19-OCT-2009 03:29 PM AUGUSTA, Ga. – Thyroid surgery is safe for older patients, say physicians who found only slight differences in rates of complications and hospital readmissions in a multi-year study.
MCG Cancer Center: Three years and growing Publish Date: 13-OCT-2009 09:40 AM The second floor of the Cancer Research Center was recently finished out as well as a portion of the first floor. The physical progress is one sign of the steady growth in MCG's cancer initiative.
Mini-Medical School fall semester begins Oct. 6 Publish Date: 29-SEP-2009 11:19 AM AUGUSTA, Ga. – Benign breast diseases, movement disorders, in vitro fertilization, coronary heart disease and pancreatic cancer are among the topics slated for the fall semester of the Medical College of Georgia Mini-Medical School that begins Oct. 6.
The lecture series, conducted by MCG faculty members, helps educate the public about health care as it gives them a taste of what medical students learn.
AAMC official stresses strategic planning for future research funding success Publish Date: 28-AUG-2009 05:19 PM The chief science officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges told a group of top Medical College of Georgia scientists and clinicians that the near-term outlook for federal research funding is good. However, she cautioned that academic medical centers must think and act more strategically to successfully obtain future funding.
Grant will expand former smoker-led intervention program Publish Date: 13-AUG-2009 08:18 AM Researchers are helping women who live in public housing in Georgia and South Carolina stop smoking through a proven former smoker-led intervention program.
Protein handlers should be effective treatment target for cancer and Alzheimer's Publish Date: 06-AUG-2009 09:57 AM Cancer and Alzheimer's have excess protein in common and scientists say learning more about how proteins are made and eliminated will lead to better treatment for both. Medical College of Georgia researchers Drs. Nahid F. Mivechi and Dimitrios Moskofidis have received two National Cancer Institute grants totaling nearly $3 million and a $982,800, four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the last 12 months to support studies of proteins and the molecular chaperones that mange them from cradle to grave.
Cancer's distinctive pattern of gene expression could aid early screening and prevention Publish Date: 27-JUL-2009 08:42 AM – Distinctive patterns of genes turned off – or left on – in healthy versus cancerous cells could enable early screening for many common cancers and maybe help avoid them, Medical College of Georgia scientists say. Researchers are comparing chemical alterations, called DNA methylation, in the body's basic building block in healthy colon, breast, brain and lymphatic cells and their cancerous counterpart to find telltale patterns that could one day be detected in the blood, urine or feces.
Targeting helpers of heat shock proteins could help treat cancer, cardiovascular disease Publish Date: 22-JUN-2009 09:14 AM AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dissecting how heat shock protein 90 gets steroid receptors into shape to use hormones like estrogen and testosterone could lead to targeted therapies for hormone-driven cancers, such as breast and prostate, that need them as well, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
