FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, Oct. 11 -- Piedmont issued the following news release: Macon, Ga. (October 10, 2024) - The Grand Opera House, the iconic and storied Macon theatre and live performance hall in the heart of the city's downtown, has a new name - the Piedmont Grand Opera House. Officials from Piedmont, which operates two hospitals in Macon - Piedmont Macon Medical Center and Piedmont Macon North Hospital - joined officials from the theatre and Mercer University, which manages The Grand, to   more

FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, Oct. 11 -- Piedmont issued the following news release: Augusta, Ga. (October 10, 2024) - Piedmont Augusta Hospital announces that it has received certification from DNV as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, reflecting the highest level of competence for treatment of serious stroke events. "With stroke care, you must have the best clinicians and resources, but also the ability to act organizationally with extreme efficiency because of the time-critical nature of these events,  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, Oct. 11 -- Piedmont issued the following news release: Covington, Ga. (October 10, 2024) - Piedmont Newton Hospital has a new, state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. The 3T (or 3 Tesla) MRI machine creates sharper images than earlier models and will allow the hospital to offer new imaging procedures. Previously, patients from Newton and surrounding counties might have had to drive up to an hour to access this technology that is now available at Piedmon  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 11 -- Plants, a scientific peer-reviewed open access journal that says it covers plant science from the Australian Society of Plant Scientists, published research articles on the following topics in its Sept. 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 13, Issue 17): * Article - A Comparative Morphological and Anatomical Study of Juniperus communis L., J. sibirica Burgsd., and J. pygmaea K. Koch from Bulgaria * Article - A Mechanistic Prediction Model of Resistance to Uprooting of Conifero  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Oct. 10 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Gray foxes have been a staple of Virginia's and the Southeast's landscape for decades. In recent years, there's been a growing concern they might be undergoing a population decline in the commonwealth. In collaboration with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, Virginia Tech researchers are working on understanding exactly what is happening with gray foxes if the population decline is habitat related, caused by   more