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Older kidney transplant patients should more often consider live donors

Jesse Schold Almost half of kidney transplant candidates older than 60 who are put on the waiting list for a deceased-donor organ will die before getting a鈥�

Gene therapy technique thwarts cancer by cutting off tumor blood supply

Bradley S. Fletcher, M.D., Ph.D. University of Florida researchers have come up with a new gene therapy method to disrupt cancer growth by using a synthetic鈥�

Soap-sniffing technology encourages hand washing to reduce infections, save money

Carrie McGirr, R.N., holds her hands, containing sanitizer gel, under a sensor before cleaning them, activating a green light on the badge she is wearing.鈥�

Research suggests new cellular targets for HIV drug development

Marco Salemi, Ph.D. Focusing HIV drug development on immune cells called macrophages instead of traditionally targeted T cells could bring us closer to鈥�

UF biologists join world experts in experiment to explore flu origins

Marco Salemi, Ph.D. As scientists rush to figure out how the virus responsible for the current influenza outbreak originated, a group of the world's experts on鈥�

UF researcher to probe evolution of HIV-related dementia

Marco Salemi, Ph.D. Thanks to the introduction of highly effective drugs, in the developed world an HIV or AIDS diagnosis is no longer the swift death sentence鈥�

After a few drinks, older adults more impaired than they think

Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D., a psychiatry professor at UF's McKnight Brain Institute Older, active people who have a drink or two might be more impaired afterward鈥�

Treating drug-addicted doctors is good medicine

Mark Gold, M.D. Doctors who become addicted to alcohol and other drugs can be treated successfully and returned to medical practice with the help of special鈥�

Shorter wait means longer life for kidney transplant candidates

Jesse Schold How long a patient survives after a kidney transplant could depend on where he or she signs up to get the surgery, new research from the鈥�

Pediatric Hodgkin's disease survivors face increased breast cancer risk

Nancy Mendenhall, M.D. Women who as children got radiation treatment for Hodgkin's disease are almost 40 times more likely than others to develop breast鈥�

Potential new herpes therapy studied

University of Florida researchers Alfred Lewin, a molecular geneticist, David Bloom, a virologist, and Sonal Tuli, an ophthalmologist, have teamed up to鈥�

UF poised to help address HIV/AIDS in the region, distinguished researcher says

Jay Levy, M.D., (left) one of the discoverers of HIV, speaking with University of Florida professor John Dame. Levy said the university can play a role in鈥�

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