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Think of a new longer-term memory as a construction site inside the brain. The brain’s neurons restructure themselves and build or demolish connections with…
JUPITER, Fla. — Researchers at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology​ have discovered a protein that appears to play…
University of Florida ÍøºìºÚÁÏ became one of the first large academic health centers in the Southeast this year to begin using a robot-assisted system in total…
Chelsea Stump developed a bond with the obstetrician who delivered her first baby almost six years ago. As a new mother-to-be, the Gainesville woman sought the…
Presidential politics, research suggests, can threaten good health. In an atmosphere of debate and disagreement, fed by an unrelenting 24-hour news cycle, a…
Imagine a doctor prescribing antibiotic ear drops called quinolones to treat an ear infection. The patient, who does not play sports, painfully ruptures an…
Taking time to go places, to visit friends or take a walk in the park, to socialize and meet new people or to simply stroll outside the familiar walls of our…
What Happened On Aug. 9, 2022, University of Florida ÍøºìºÚÁÏ Shands learned that an employee may have inappropriately accessed information in patients’ medical…
Americans aren’t turning to pharmaceutical options as often in the never-ending battle for a good night’s sleep. The use of medication to treat sleep…
The University of Florida Center for Regenerative Medicine today announced the launch of a clinical trial to test safe dosages of umbilical cord-derived stem…
A major step toward transforming the understanding of cardiovascular and kidney disease in the millions of Americans with diabetes occurred Thursday when the…
University of Florida Diabetes Institute director Mark Atkinson, Ph.D., whose founding of a biobank of pancreatic tissue 15 years ago transformed the…
