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UF Health Brings Care Closer to Home

WebIn exchange for city-funded road development at the site, UF Health is retaining about 4 acres for the urgent care facility and also donating some land at the 21.7-acre site to Gainesville for its new bus transfer station on the city’s East Side. “Over the years, many residents have expressed the need for health care closer to home.

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New director at Cancer Center

WebIn June, an internationally known expert in blood cancer was appointed director of the UF Health Cancer Center, effective Oct. 1. Jonathan D. Licht, M.D., comes to UF Health from Northwestern University in Chicago and brings a $2 million research portfolio that includes funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer …

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Focus on survival

WebThe UF Health Shands Hospital lung transplant program tops the list as the best in the United States for one-year risk-adjusted survival rates, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, or SRTR.

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Personalized care

WebPersonalized care. UF Health opens innovative precision health research center dedicated to senior health in The Villages®. University of Florida Health has raised the bar for improving the lives of seniors in America’s Healthiest Hometown® by opening a new research center that aims to predict, prevent and cure health problems that impact

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Conquering COVID-19

WebConquering COVID-19. UF Health at the forefront of combatting the pandemic. As more vaccines become available, the tide finally may be turning in the global battle against COVID-19. For more than a year, University of Florida researchers and clinicians have worked tirelessly to unlock the mysteries of the novel coronavirus, to …

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Focus on the community

WebA researcher who has spent more than a decade working on the health needs of the people living in The Villages® has joined the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of health outcomes and biomedical informatics, where she will direct a new UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute research program in the sprawling …

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One world, one health

WebOne world, one health. Health care experts have realized the myriad ways human health is tied to animal and environmental health, a concept called One Health. UF’s One Health program brings together students and experts from a variety of disciplines to solve the world’s complex and interconnected health care problems. When he was a …

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PREPARING FOR THE UNTHINKABLE

WebPREPARING FOR THE UNTHINKABLE. Mass casualty events put emergency training to the test. By: Bill Levesque. An ambulance races to the UF Health Shands E.R. carrying a man bleeding from a severe head wound he received in a fight. A quiet morning for staff ends with the suddenness of a light being switched off. Someone …

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Combating COVID-19

WebJoseph A. Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H., interim dean of the UF College of Medicine; David R. Nelson, M.D., senior vice president for health affairs at UF and president of UF Health; and Elliot Sussman, M.D., board chair of The Villages Health, helped oversee COVID-19 testing effort at The Villages® by UF Health researchers, The Villages Health …

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New school pharmacy

WebNew school pharmacy College of Pharmacy updates its curriculum to match evolving field of health care By Linda Homewood. What will it take to provide the best care to patients between now and the year 2060?

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When less oxygen Heals

WebHypoxia is a word that makes some people brace. Defined as “a deficiency of oxygen reaching the tissues of the body,” hypoxia can be quite harmful if taken to the extreme. Intermittent periods of hypoxia are one major consequence of sleep apnea, which contributes to high blood pressure, diabetes — even cancer growth.

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Science of seaweed

WebScientists hypothesize that seaweed consumption has contributed to lower cancer rates among these populations, but Luesch said there is a research gap in understanding the chemical structures and mechanistic activities responsible for anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory qualities. UF’s study addresses some of these gaps and …

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Healing hands in conflict zones

WebHealing hands in conflict zones. UF Health physicians put themselves at risk to provide critical medical relief around the globe. Taking the Hippocratic Oath is widely known among physicians as a rite of passage into medicine. One of the oldest binding documents in history, the oath written by the Greek physician Hippocrates compels …

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Shaken baby syndrome

WebNever shake a baby Women just as likely as men to commit shaken baby violence By April Frawley Birdwell. Women are just as likely as men to violently shake a small child in their care, though men cause more severe injuries and death, according to …

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May 2019 – Helping Hand

WebThe protocol that Grooms helped develop is a holistic, multistep process that focuses on the person’s physical and psychological health during every stage of their transition. It begins with a counseling session, a crucial first step, she said, because patients often experience significant anxiety and depression as well as.

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