Contraindication

News and patient stories: Contraindication

National Breastfeeding Month: What does our Baby-Friendly designation mean?

UF Health Shands Hospital has been a Baby-Friendly designated facility since 2015, but what does this mean? This national distinction for breastfeeding support…

A smiling woman lays in a hospital bed while breastfeeding her baby.

Safety concerns hamper study of hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19 in front-line health workers

June 3, 2020

As a national study ramps up at University of Florida Health and other sites around the country to test whether hydroxychloroquine, or HCQ, can protect healthy…

Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, +4 more

The HERO-HCQ trial is investigating the drug’s ability to prevent infection among essential workers in health care settings who are at higher than average risk of exposure to the coronavirus.