UF scientists eye novel drug candidate with marine origins to treat vision loss
By Matthew Splett • Aug 8, 2019 • Lead StoryResearchers from the University of Florida and Singapore are focused on a novel drug candidate with marine origins as a new method to prevent or treat vision loss. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
UF and FSU receive $29 million to speed discoveries leading to better health
By Meghan Meyer • Jul 30, 2019 • Lead StoryFor more information, please contact: Meghan Meyer at the University of Florida, meghanmeyer@ufl.edu or 352-273-8872, or Doug Carlson at Florida State University, doug.carlson@med.fsu.edu or 850-645-1255 The University of Florida...
UF Health Shands Hospital ranks among nation’s best in seven medical specialties
By Doug Bennett • Jul 30, 2019 • Lead StoryUniversity of Florida Health Shands Hospital ranks among the nation’s elite in seven adult medical specialties in U.S. News & World Report’s 2019-20 “Best Hospitals” report . No other Florida hospital has more than seven...
Toward Safer Touchscreens
By Sarah Carey • Jul 29, 2019 • Video, Lead StoryThin is safer than thick when it comes to the safety of silver nanowires — highly conductive nanomaterials a thousand times thinner than a human hair that are being used in next-generation touchscreens, report a transnational...
UF, Miami-Dade Animal Services shelter collaboration extended after successful start
By Sarah Carey • Jul 24, 2019 • Lead StoryNow approaching its third year, a program to provide University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine students with hands-on experience at a large, nationally recognized community animal shelter in Miami is drawing rave...
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University of Florida Health researchers find new details of immune system’s molecular “switch”
By Doug Bennett • University of Florida, UF Health, College of Public Health & Health Professions, College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Department of Biostatistics, UF Health Cancer Center • Aug 7, 2019 -
UF Health researcher named to the American Academy of Microbiology
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Grant to help UF Health researchers boost HPV vaccinations among youngsters
By Diana Tonnessen • University of Florida, UF Health, Jacksonville College of Medicine, Institute for Child Health Policy, Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, UF Health Cancer Center • Jul 31, 2019 -
Fitness trackers may have little effect on users’ cholesterol, blood pressure levels
By Jill Pease • University of Florida, UF Health, College of Public Health & Health Professions • Jul 22, 2019
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Few at risk for diabetes report being informed by provider
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ACORN Clinic to close due to shrinking funds
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Heavily processed foods lead to weight gain
Aug 16, 2019
Here’s a new diet tip: Stay away from highly processed foods. People gained more weight and consumed more calories from ultraprocessed foods than they did from a minimally processed diet. That’s the upshot of a recent National Institutes of Health study that tracked dietary habits and body changes...
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Wildlife and Human Impacts
Aug 16, 2019
Changes in the environment directly impact a variety of animal species. On this show, Dr. Jim Wellehan, a zoological medicine specialist, will discuss ways in which wildlife habitats are impacted by human activity, and why some impacts may be less obvious than others, but equally destructive. As...
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Treatment of Bite Wounds
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