UF researcher finds way to boost protective brain enzyme after stroke

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In the race to limit brain damage after a stroke, most treatments try to block harmful processes. A University of Florida Health researcher…

This computer-rendered 3D model shows human neurolysin in magenta. Green spheres mark a druggable hinge-region pocket targeted through structure-based drug discovery. The white box outlines the computational region used to predict small-molecule binding, predictions later validated in the study.

UF Health study maps hidden immune signals in Type 1 diabetes

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Type 1 diabetes researchers have made great progress in understanding the disease in the last two decades, even as a cure remains elusive.…

This image shows the cellular structures of a human pancreatic lymph node. These lymph nodes play an important role in initiating the autoimmune attack that destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas during type 1 diabetes. (Image by UF Diabetes Institute)

UF Health Orthopaedic Surgical Center unveiled

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Safety, ease and convenience. All three were at the forefront when constructing the new UF Health Orthopaedic Surgical Center. UF Health…

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UF Health leaders celebrate the opening of the UF Health Orthopaedic Surgical Center by cutting a ribbon.

Houston, we have a problem: UF study points to clotting glitch in space

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A cut presumably draws blood anywhere in the universe, whether in an earthly suburb or on some future interstellar voyage yet undreamed…

Abdel Alli, Ph.D., M.P.H., stands in his lab where he and his team are studying how blood-clotting platelets behave in space.

New species of dinosaur answers old questions

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In the middle of the Sahara Desert, the carnivorous unicorn’s bones waited for a name. Millions of years later, they got one. Spinosaurus…

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Flesh body rendering over the skeleton of the new scimitar-crested spinosaurid Spinosaurus mirabilis.

Decades later, brain training lowers dementia risk

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Beginning in the late 1990s, nearly 3,000 older adults received brain training as part of a study to evaluate the training's effect on…

Older adults who participated in computer-based cognitive speed training had a lower risk of being diagnosed with dementia two decades later. (Adobe Stock photo)

Study: Lost wages from long COVID total $12.7 billion in just one year

UF Health study finds long COVID led to billions in lost wages.

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Comprehensive study settles debate over diet safety for patients with cancer

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For decades, patients undergoing blood cancer treatment have been told to avoid certain foods to reduce infection risk, guidance that some…

A University of Florida study finds that patients hospitalized for blood cancer treatment experienced fewer serious infections when they ate a diet of cooked foods in order to limit exposure to foodborne microbes in fresh fruits and vegetables. Credit: Adobe Stock

Unexpected finding could offer new treatment targets for meth addiction

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida neuroscientists have made a mechanistic discovery that paves the way to test immune-modulating medicines as a…

(From left) These images show midbrain dopamine neurons expressing TNF receptor 1 (TNFR), tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and an extensive overlap of both.

Giving the gift of life, times three

On a sunny December afternoon in a room high atop the UF Health Heart and Vascular Hospital, overlooking the University of Florida campus, six people whose…

Last week, three living kidney donors met the people who received their donations. Donor Michael Davino. Left, shakes hands with recipient James Brewster. Donor Evelyn Jackl, center, hugs John Davino. On the right, donor Julie Scarboro greets recipient Michael Griffin. Photo courtesy of UF Health / Hannah Clark.

Internet, lack of trust threatens patient-doctor bond

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Physicians have worked to earn the trust of their patients for nearly 2,400 years, dating back to the days of Hippocrates, the father of…

A stethoscope lays on top of a computer keyboard.

Florida’s red tide events tied to illness

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s hospitals can expect an uptick in patients during red tide events, a new University of Florida Health study has found. The…