UF Health urges stricter pitching rules for kids
Study notes an increase in pitching injuries for youth and high school baseball players.
UF Health provides automated pharmacy kiosks
Patients can acquire common medications at three UF Health ERs.
Study: Sleep apnea poses serious health threat
UF study shows life expectancy shortens and causes health problems.
UF Health scientist lands grant for rare disease
Funds will go toward studying rare Smith-Kingsmore syndrome neurological disease.
UF Health leads way in robotic joint replacement
UF one of first large Southeast academic centers to use robot-assisted system.
UF study finds election stress may impact health
Study shows population blood pressure rose following 2016 election.
UF: Sleep medication usage drops
5-year study shows decline in usage, especially among elderly.
UF Health named HHT Center of Excellence
UF’s work with rare inherited condition involving blood vessels leads to Cure HHT provider designation.
UF researchers develop 30-second coronavirus test
With any highly infectious disease, time can be a killer. It is crucial to get a test result for a pathogen quickly, lest someone continue in […]
UF study suggests correlation between COVID, ED
If the threat of death or severe disability isn’t enough to convince someone to get a COVID-19 vaccination, men can add this possible consequence of coronavirus […]
UF Health addresses thyroid cancer overdiagnosis
It can be a disquieting moment for a patient. A lump or bump is found on their neck. It’s a thyroid nodule. Is it cancer? Many […]
UF scientists examine COVID using lung tissue
Scientists can grow individual cell lines in a dish and study how the coronavirus infects them. And that’s useful as far as it goes. In a […]
UF: Long COVID continues to plague victims
The symptoms of COVID-19 can be terrible enough in the days and weeks after infection by the coronavirus. Many people, however, soon discover the microscopic invader […]
UF: Allergies shouldn’t prevent COVID vaccination
Getting a vaccination against COVID-19 makes sense for just about everybody. Vaccines remain highly effective in preventing infection, severe disease and hospitalization. Unvaccinated Americans are 11 […]
UF Health researchers seek to stop next pandemic
UF Health researchers are joining an ambitious global effort led by The Rockefeller Foundation to better track the coronavirus and its variants and set up a […]
UF Health doc offers COVID vaccine advice for parents
The race to defeat the novel coronavirus took a major leap forward last week when the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control […]
UF Health achieves milestone in heart failure treatment
University of Florida Health researchers recently became the first to temporarily implant a new device in a patient with congestive heart failure, a procedure that one […]
UF Health researcher explains herd immunity
It’s a term we’re going to hear much more frequently during the final chapter of the COVID-19 pandemic—herd immunity. With millions of Americans being vaccinated against […]
UF Health physician tackles pandemic questions, misinformation
The novel coronavirus is still sickening Americans by the tens of thousands. But three vaccines are now available to stem the pandemic, and for many, hope […]
UF Health virologist explains COVID-19 variants
Much of the discussion about the novel coronavirus in recent weeks has been about the potential impact of COVID-19 variants on vaccines now being administered worldwide. […]
UF Health researcher answers questions about new COVID-19 vaccine
And soon, there will be three. Johnson & Johnson recently submitted its COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization. That […]
UF Health expanding access to COVID-19 vaccinations
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With the novel coronavirus continuing its unabated march through communities local and global, University of Florida Health is moving into the next stage […]
UF Health Shands Hospital ranked best in Florida
University of Florida Health Shands Hospital emerged as Florida’s top health center and one of the nation’s elite in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2020-21 […]
UF Health enrolls first patient in clinical trial aimed at creating new treatment for COVID-19
University of Florida Health has enrolled its first patient in a clinical trial for the Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ monoclonal antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19, a therapy that […]