Adolescents’ salt intake correlates with obesity, inflammation
Tweet Special to the Journal Augusta, Ga. – Most adolescents consume as much salt as adults – some more than twice the recommended daily allowance – and that high sodium intake correlates with fatness and inflammation regardless of how many calories they consume, researchers report.
Read More →Health District confirms first flu-related death; state fatalities continue to rise
Tweet Written by Carolyn Maschke ALBANY – A Dougherty County adult became Southwest Public Health District’s first flu fatality for the 2013-2014 flu season, health officials confirmed today. The Georgia Department of Health has confirmed more than 20 flu fatalities statewide.
Read More →Findings bolster fiber’s role in colon health
Tweet Special to the Journal Augusta, Ga. – Scientists have more reasons for you to eat fiber and not abuse antibiotics. They’ve shown that a receptor doctors already activate with mega-doses of niacin to protect patients’ cardiovascular systems also plays a key role in preventing colon inflammation and cancer, according to a study featured on [...]
Read More →Two players produce destructive cascade of diabetic retinopathy
Tweet Special to the Journal Augusta – The retina can be bombarded by reactive oxygen species in diabetes, prompting events that destroy healthy blood vessels, form leaky new ones and ruin vision. Now researchers have learned that those chemically reactive molecules must come from both the bone marrow as well as the retinal cells themselves [...]
Read More →GRU joins national research cooperative to improve reproductive health
Tweet Special to the Journal Augusta, Ga. – Georgia Regents University has joined the national Cooperative Multicenter Reproductive Medicine Network designed to enable large clinical trials that improve the diagnosis and treatment of reproductive health issues such as male and female infertility.
Read More →Blood drive scheduled for Thursday
Tweet Special to the Journal ALBANY, Ga. – It’s the season of giving and what better way to finish up the Christmas holiday than by giving the gift of life by donating blood. Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital will be holding a community blood drive on Thursday, December 26, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in [...]
Read More →Ultrasound-guided joint injection technology now available in Albany
Tweet Special to the Journal ALBANY, Ga. – Injuries can happen to anyone from athletes to homebodies. Residents of Albany and surrounding areas now have access to ultrasound-guided injections, a new technique to help with the pain of injuries and healing of inflammation. The use of ultrasound-guided joint injection technology helps physicians guide injections directly [...]
Read More →Scientists look to tackle bacterium that is major cause of diarrhea, vomiting
Tweet Special to the Journal Augusta, Ga. – Scientists want to make a chink in the armor of a bacterium that has little name recognition yet is the number-one bacterial cause of the diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain Americans experience annually.
Read More →New cause found for muscle-weakening disease myasthenia gravis
Tweet Special to the Journal Augusta, Ga. – An antibody to a protein critical to enabling the brain to talk to muscles has been identified as a cause of myasthenia gravis, researchers report.
Read More →GRU researcher’s business grows with new MighTeaFlow products for dry mouth
Tweet Special to the Journal Augusta, Ga. – A trio of over-the-counter products with natural ingredients to combat dry mouth are the latest consumer products developed by Camellix, LLC, a start-up biotechnology and drug development company founded by Georgia Regents University researcher Dr. Stephen Hsu.
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