https://phys.org/ en-us Latest news from Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Scientists at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University are searching for a new treatment target for a common complication of diabetes that can cause retinal blood vessels to break down, leak, or become blocked. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-scientists-treatment-diabetic-retinopathy.html Diabetes Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:51:21 EDT news645360672 Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University are searching for a better way to understand why many men with prostate cancer end up with Alzheimer's disease, and whether it's the standard hormone therapy treatment or an overactive immune response that actually contributes to the problem. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-08-scientists-aim-men-prostate-cancer.html Oncology & Cancer Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:40:03 EDT news644143201 Physicians at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University are working with Polaris Dawn, the first of the Polaris Program's three human spaceflight missions, to better understand the eye changes many astronauts experience during spaceflight that can leave them with a wide range of symptoms once they return to Earth—from a new need for glasses to significant loss of vision. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-physicians-vision-loss-space.html Space Exploration Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:29:03 EDT news643552141 Medical College of Georgia scientists report that a gene previously implicated in the development of atherosclerotic lesions in coronary arteries could be key to understanding why many people don't benefit from the most used therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-05-scientists-treatment.html Ophthalmology Thu, 02 May 2024 09:08:07 EDT news633859681 A synthetic peptide developed by researchers at the Medical College of Georgia could help reduce vascular problems associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in COVID-19. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-synthetic-peptide-vascular-problems-covid-ards.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:48:29 EDT news615556097 A unique program that sees students at the Medical College of Georgia working as anesthesia technologists throughout their four years of medical school can influence more of them to pursue the specialty as a career, investigators report. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-anesthesiology-externship.html Medical economics Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:59:04 EDT news613227542 In 2021, Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao, Ph.D., presented a critique on the formula of net population replacement levels at the International Population Conference 2021 in Hyderabad, India. It was one of the first times he had publicly shared his latest research on population replacement commonly calculated through net reproduction rate (NRR). A blog on the same topic written by him also appeared in Population Association of America's "PAA Affairs." https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-modernizing-traditional-approach-population.html Health informatics Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:34:04 EDT news612189241 A long molecule of RNA found in abundance in the healthy smooth muscle cells that give our blood vessels strength and flexibility is also essential to the continuous contraction that moves food through our gastrointestinal tract. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-molecule-rna-essential-gi-tract.html Gastroenterology Tue, 09 May 2023 10:57:24 EDT news602848609 Inhibiting a tiny RNA whose levels significantly increase with age, along with problems like weaker bones and sagging muscles, may be a way to keep our bodies more youthful and healthy, scientists say. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-blocking-tiny-rna-forestall-age-related.html Inflammatory disorders Tue, 02 May 2023 01:39:45 EDT news602210371 Insomnia affects up to half of people with schizophrenia and is thought to worsen the impact of their disease, including their risk of suicide. A new meta-analysis of the antipsychotics these patients take indicates those who take clozapine have significantly fewer problems with insomnia, investigators report. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-antipsychotic-medication-clozapine-linked-significantly.html Medications Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:11:05 EDT news601747861 The first in-human-study of a new immunotherapy that blocks a natural enzyme tumors commandeer for their protection was well tolerated by children with relapsed brain tumors and enabled many to have unexpected months of a more normal life, researchers say. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-treatment-regimen-tolerated-beneficial-children.html Oncology & Cancer Tue, 25 Apr 2023 02:01:51 EDT news601606884 In the spiraling cycle that can lead to vision loss in premature newborns, Medical College of Georgia scientists have found a new target and drug that together appear to stop the destruction in its tracks. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-vision-premature-babies.html Inflammatory disorders Thu, 20 Apr 2023 03:55:24 EDT news601181717 Cancer that has spread to areas like the lungs can apply the brakes to a natural pathway that should recruit killer T cells directly to where it has metastasized, scientists report. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-cancer-lung-maneuvers-killer-cells.html Oncology & Cancer Tue, 28 Mar 2023 03:56:30 EDT news599194582 About 17% of women with unexplained infertility also have gene variants known to cause disease, from common conditions like heart disease to rare problems like ALS, Medical College of Georgia researchers report. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-disproportionate-percentage-females-unexplained-infertility.html Genetics Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:37:40 EDT news598246649 The vascular smooth muscle cells that normally give blood vessel walls strength and flexibility proliferate and become destructive in pulmonary hypertension, a typically rapidly progressing condition that makes it hard to get blood inside our lungs and oxygen to our bodies. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-gene-essential-dna-good-minimizing.html Genetics Tue, 14 Mar 2023 04:13:35 EDT news597986004 There is increasing evidence that females of all ethnicities and ages are more salt sensitive than males, and that this propensity to hold onto more salt, which drives blood pressure up, increases after menopause. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-females-ages-sexes-salt-sensitive.html Health Tue, 07 Mar 2023 04:07:26 EST news597384434 A vibrating capsule designed to stir the colon to action appears to double the ability for adults struggling with debilitating chronic constipation to defecate more normally and without drugs, researchers report. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-vibrating-capsule-ability-constipation-defecate.html Gastroenterology Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:55:03 EST news596220898 Peripheral artery disease, or PAD, in which impaired blood flow to the legs can make walking painful and even lead to amputation, and negative social determinants of health, like poverty and racism, both disproportionately affect older Black adults. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-01-pad-negative-social-health-earlier.html Cardiology Tue, 31 Jan 2023 03:48:25 EST news594359294 It's clear that chronic stress can impact our behavior, leading to problems like depression, reduced interest in things that previously brought us pleasure, even PTSD. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-01-chronic-stress-neurons-behavioral-problems.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 24 Jan 2023 03:54:58 EST news593754890 Technology that enables an unprecedented, high-resolution look for all structural variants in our genes that are known to cause cancer can outperform standard tests used today for common blood cancers like leukemia, researchers report. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-01-optimal-genome-high-resolution-method-cancer-causing.html Genetics Tue, 17 Jan 2023 04:12:43 EST news593151157 There is new evidence that a 50-year-old blood pressure drug could find new purpose as a treatment to mitigate the often life-altering effects of increasingly prevalent PTSD, scientists say. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-01-blood-pressure-drug-ptsd.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 05 Jan 2023 04:31:49 EST news592115500 Females' propensity to deposit more fat in places like their hips, buttocks and the backs of their arms, so-called subcutaneous fat, is protective against brain inflammation, which can result in problems like dementia and stroke, at least until menopause, scientists report. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-subcutaneous-fat-emerges-protector-females.html Diabetes Tue, 13 Dec 2022 04:20:42 EST news590127634 Antibodies produced against the commonly used antibiotic, gentamicin, appear to increase the risk of type 1 diabetes in children already genetically at risk, scientists say. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-antibodies-common-antibiotic-factor-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 08 Dec 2022 03:46:15 EST news589693567 Soon after cholesterol and fat start depositing on the lining of the blood vessels that supply your heart, the smooth muscle cells that give the blood vessels strength and flexibility start to get bigger and multiply. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-heart-disease.html Cardiology Tue, 29 Nov 2022 03:54:08 EST news588916418 In the tough war against glioblastoma, scientists are taking a cue from viruses on how to make the aggressive cancer more vulnerable to treatment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-glioblastoma-vulnerable-treatment.html Oncology & Cancer Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:36:57 EDT news586496209 A big group of bacteria found in our soil, our water and our showerheads are harmless for most of us, but a new study indicates they are associated with an increased risk of dying in individuals whose kidneys have failed. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-common-harmless-group-bacteria-higher.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 25 Oct 2022 03:04:31 EDT news585885860 Studies have suggested that psoriasis is an independent risk factor for heart attack in the general population, but investigators have made the surprising finding that in people who also have end-stage renal disease, which shares many risk factors with heart disease, it is not. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-psoriasis-heart-people-significant-kidney.html Inflammatory disorders Tue, 18 Oct 2022 02:14:27 EDT news585278057 An enzyme under study to treat certain cancers is also showing promise in reducing the significant vision damage that can result from diabetes and premature birth, scientists report. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-powerful-enzyme-tamps-inflammation-eyes.html Ophthalmology Wed, 12 Oct 2022 04:41:11 EDT news584768461 The wear and tear on the body from chronic and lifelong stress can also lead to an increased risk of dying from cancer, Medical College of Georgia researchers report. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-lifelong-stress-cancer-mortality.html Oncology & Cancer Thu, 06 Oct 2022 03:42:52 EDT news584246563 Mathematical models indicate that as few as one in five cases of COVID-19 which occurred during the first 29 months of the pandemic are accounted for in the half billion cases officially reported. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-covid-cases-worldwide-mathematical.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:20:14 EDT news583510806