Medical College of Georgia News

When brain cells start oozing too much of the amyloid protein that is the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, the astrocytes that normally nourish and protect them deliver a suicide package instead, researchers report.

In a Saturday, May 12, 2012 photo, Roy Vandiver, third from left, visits with his ``new B. F. F.,'' Shannon Marie Giddens as they and other candidates for Mercer University degrees wait for commencement exercises to being ,in Macon, Ga,. At 73, Vandiver is the third oldest grad in the school's history.

Spirits were high at Beach High Friday as eight students received white lab coats and were welcomed into an enrichment program through the Georgia Health Sciences University Medical College of Georgia.

He's built a smarter mouse and taken a snapshot of a memory in his efforts to decode the brain.

The Office of Diversity Affairs and the Medical College of Georgia will partner with Savannah State University and Beach High School to offer the Student Educational Enrichment Program.

Tabled, but not off the table. That's the state of a formal commission resolution to include Augusta in the New U's name.

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Longtime University of Georgia President Michael Adams is retiring in 2013 after 16 years at the helm of the state's flagship campus, officials familiar with the decision said Wednesday.

A. S. Turner & Sons Funeral Home in Decatur has provided this obituary for Paul Taylor, 53, the bicyclist killed Monday morning on North Decatur Road .

Dr. Askiel Bruno, stroke specialist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University.