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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.

Meet medicine’s new fundraisers

By Priscilla Santos • Aug 5th, 2009 • Category: New Hires/Appointments, Top Stories

The 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.

Meet Dr. David Guzick

By Christine Velasquez • Jul 6th, 2009 • Category: Department, Faculty in the News, Top Stories

UF’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 Stories

Soothing 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 Stories

Almost 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 Stories

Using 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 Stories

HyGreen 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, Video

UF 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 Stories

The COM’s graduating class honors Patricia Abbitt, M.D., with the 2009 Hippocratic Award.