Patients, visitors and employees at the University of Florida Health Science Center campus and Shands HealthCare facilities throughout north central Florida are going Tobacco-Free Together.
Epidemiology and Health Policy Research news at the College of Medicine
UF, Shands HealthCare plan to go tobacco-free together
By Melanie Ross • Aug 4th, 2009 • Category: Aging and Geriatric Research, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Anesthesiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Community Health & Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Neurology, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Physiology and Functional Genomics, Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Surgery, Top Stories, UrologyShands at UF ranks as one of ‘America’s Best Hospitals’
By Christine Velasquez • Jul 22nd, 2009 • Category: Aging and Geriatric Research, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Anesthesiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Community Health & Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Neurology, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Physiology and Functional Genomics, Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Surgery, UrologyU.S. News Media Group’s 2009 edition of America’s Best Hospitals lists Shands at UF among top 50 best hospitals.
Genetic finding could lead to targeted therapy for neuroblastoma
By April Frawley Birdwell • Jul 6th, 2009 • Category: Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Published PapersResearchers are closer to better treatments of neuroblastoma, the most common form of cancer in babies and the third most common childhood cancer.
Older kidney transplant patients should more often consider live donors
By Czerne Reid • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Published Papers, Top StoriesAlmost half of kidney transplant candidates older than 60 die before getting a deceased-donor organ.
