Fear of Rejection

The fetus is showing researchers a thing or two about how to fly under the immune system radar. It was University of Minnesota researchers who first found in 1989 that this burgeoning offspring of a mother and father’s...

Statewide Update

NORTHWEST CAMPUS Redmond Regional Medical Center, one of the hospital partners for the MCG Northwest Campus in Rome, will be hosting their first class of internal medicine residents this July. The program, directed by...

MCG Medicine Spring/Summer 2016 Class Notes

Dr. Sidney A. Bell (’67), a Rome, Georgia, retired orthopaedic surgeon, who started the first total joint replacement and total hip and knee replacement programs in Northwest Georgia, received one of seven Heart of the...

Taking it to the Streets

Students Offer Lifeline Through  Homeless Clinic It is a Monday morning in late August, and Robert Cobb is waiting in line at the Downtown Cooperative Church Ministry’s Food Pantry on 8th Street in Augusta. The pantry...

Tick Tock

Chairman’s initiatives Put Time on Stroke Patients’ Side There are about 100 billion Neurons in the brain, and a stroke kills 32,000 each minute. The Clock Starts “You can’t think too much about it in a...

MCG Medicine Fall 2015/Winter 2016 In Memoriam

Dr. William Hilton Nichols Jr. (’50), who served as a family physician for generations of families in Canton, Georgia, died July 12 at age 89. While earning an undergraduate degree at Emory at Oxford College, he turned...

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