A program of core strengthening exercises was no better than traditional sit-ups for preventing back pain in soldiers, according to a new University of Florida study. But combining both exercise programs with a brief educational session on back pain strategies did lower the incidence of treatment for back pain. The results of the study appear [...]

The University of Florida has established a new master’s degree program geared toward helping physicians be better teachers and training them to be scholars in the field. The colleges of Education and Medicine have joined forces to offer an online joint master’s degree program, which will begin in the fall and is open to physicians [...]

A group of life-threatening blood disorders collectively called myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, may occur four times more often than reported by national cancer registries, according to new research from the University of Florida based on data from Medicare claims. MDS occurs when the body’s blood factory does not produce healthy red or white blood cells [...]

The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved a new Physician Assistant Residency Pilot Program in Primary Care at the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System. It is one of six in the country. The program, which is a collaboration between the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System and the University Of Florida College of Medicine [...]

Terri Rines trained with her horse, First Cadet, five days a week in Melbourne, Fla. And five days a week, First Cadet jumped over cavallettis, which are training poles, without a problem. But one day in January, First Cadet stumbled over a cavalletti and injured her right leg. Progressively, her leg got worse. First Cadet [...]

UF and Shands faculty and staff gathered to sing holiday carols in the Founders Gallery of the Academic Research Building at the UF Health Science Center December, 16.

University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine faculty members Michael Schaer, D.V.M., a professor of small animal medicine, and Dennis Brooks, D.V.M., Ph.D., a professor of ophthalmology, both recently received the Dr. Erwin Small Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine and its alumni association. The award, presented during the [...]

Dan Lewis, D.V.M., a professor of small animal surgery at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named the 2012 recipient of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association’s Hill’s Mobility Award. The WSAVA’s Hills Mobility award recognizes the outstanding work of a clinical researcher in the field of canine and feline orthopedic [...]

The University of Florida has received $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop public health workforce education programs and community health projects for rural Florida residents. The UF College of Public Health and Health Professions is one of 10 public health schools to receive 2011 Public Health Training Center [...]

Families in the Shands at the University of Florida Neonatal Intensive Care Unit received gifts donated by the Solbach family, whose child graduated from the NICU last year. Ryan and Brittany Rhoden look through a bag of gifts they received for their son, Konlin, who was born at 24 weeks. (Photo by Jesse Jones/University of Florida)