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Top Stories news at the College of Medicine

UF shines blue for diabetes

By Priscilla Santos • Nov 5th, 2009 • Category: Event, Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, Top Stories

During November, the University of Florida will shine a “blue” spotlight on diabetes with several events planned to raise awareness and promote prevention of the disease.

UF, Shands Healthcare are tobacco-free together

By John Pastor • Nov 5th, 2009 • Category: Top Stories

Patients, visitors and employees at the University of Florida Health Science Center campus and Shands HealthCare facilities throughout north central Florida are now Tobacco-Free Together.

A voice for kids

By April Frawley Birdwell • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Students, Top Stories

UF pediatric residents focus on advocacy.

Making the switch: the debut of electronic medical records

By Christine Velasquez • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Top Stories, Video

UF’s College of Medicine recently implemented electronic medical records for the first time at a clinic the college runs in Old Town, Fla. Here, COM and clinic leaders discuss the change.

UF advances work on national obesity epidemic

By Christine Velasquez • Oct 8th, 2009 • Category: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Psychiatry, Top Stories

The University of Florida College of Medicine’s psychiatry department adds new eating disorder and obesity division.

The promise of a new home

By Christine Velasquez • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Top Stories

A young family teams up with the UF Powell Gene Therapy Center to battle Pompe disease. Their story of hope and courage is featured in the Fall 2009 issue of the Florida Physician.

Lifestyles of the cash-strapped and not-yet-famous medical students.

By Christine Velasquez • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Students, Top Stories

The Southern Scholarship Foundation dedicates one of its nine scholarship houses in Gainesville to female medical students, providing rent-free housing to nine qualifying students. Living in the Rogers Rotary House helps alleviate some of the students’ financial burdens.

Shands at UF recognized for bone marrow research, clinical care

By Christine Velasquez • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Medicine, Top Stories

Shands and the University of Florida have been recognized by the Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation as a center of excellence for research and patient care of myelodysplastic syndromes, cancers that affect bone marrow.

Mission: Medical School

By Christine Velasquez • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Top Stories

First-year medical students conquer first week of classes.

UF-developed site to help improve physical fitness in kids

By April Frawley Birdwell • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: Top Stories

COM informatics specialists developed a new Web site that could help Florida kids get fit.