COM informatics specialists developed a new Web site that could help Florida kids get fit.
Top Stories news at the College of Medicine
UF-developed site to help improve physical fitness in kids
By April Frawley Birdwell • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: Top StoriesMeet medicine’s new fundraisers
By Priscilla Santos • Aug 5th, 2009 • Category: New Hires/Appointments, Top StoriesThe Office of Development and Alumni Affairs welcomed four new development officers recenlty to help meet the needs of the College of Medicine and to ensure that private support continues to strengthen.
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, UrologyPatients, 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.
Meet Dr. David Guzick
By Christine Velasquez • Jul 6th, 2009 • Category: Department, Faculty in the News, Top StoriesUF’s new Senior VP for Health Affairs will aim high.
Wrong type of help from parents could worsen child’s OCD
By April Frawley Birdwell • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: Psychiatry, Top StoriesSoothing anxiety and helping with behaviors linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder could lead to more severe symptoms in children.
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.
Breast MRI shows it’s not the size of the lymph node that signals spread of cancer
By Jennifer Brindise • Jun 10th, 2009 • Category: Surgery, Top StoriesUsing MRI technology, a UF researcher’s findings suggests a new way to assess whether or not breast cancer has spread to the lymph nodes.
Soap-sniffing technology encourages hand washing to reduce hospital-acquired infections
By Czerne Reid • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Anesthesiology, Medicine, Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, Top StoriesHyGreen hand hygiene system can help reduce infections and save money by reminding hospital workers to clean their hands to remove pathogens.
A rite of passage: Third-year medical students don their white coats
By Christine Velasquez • May 19th, 2009 • Category: Students, Top Stories, VideoUF medical students entering their third year took part in the annual White Coat Ceremony, a 12-year-old tradition that celebrates their transition from the classroom to the clinical setting.
A radiologist in the shadow of Hippocrates
By Christine Velasquez • Apr 29th, 2009 • Category: Awards, Top StoriesThe COM’s graduating class honors Patricia Abbitt, M.D., with the 2009 Hippocratic Award.






