University of Florida College of Nursing Assistant Professor Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini, Ph.D., R.N., was selected to receive the Southern Nursing Research Society Research in Minority Health Award. Stacciarini was honored for her research on the mental health of rural Latinos and her mentorship of minority students. The SNRS governing board gives the Research in Minority Health [...]

  Soon-to-be graduates of the UF College of Medicine learned where they matched for their residency training during the college¹s annual Match Day ceremony on March 17 at the Reitz Union. For the 129 graduates, the day was every bit as exciting as the opening day of baseball season. (Photo by Maria Farias/University of Florida)

Shands Rehab Hospital and Shands Vista are turning 25 this month. Staff, former patients and community members are invited to join in the celebration beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 17, featuring food, games, prizes and music. Albert and Alberta will be in attendance and the ShandsCair helicopter will be on display. UF&Shands leadership, medical [...]

Tyler’s Hope for a Dystonia Cure has presented $100,000 to the UF Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration to establish The Tyler’s Hope Season of Hope Fellowship for clinical training and research in dystonia, Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders. “The money will establish a yearly fellowship, so we will be able to meet that critical [...]

The late 1980s and early 1990s were hectic times for the pediatrics department at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. Contracts were in the works, various partnerships were being negotiated and the role of the department in the community wasn’t clear. The official relationship between UF and Jacksonville was still in its infancy, and [...]

Flowers are a symbol of happiness and good cheer. But new research reveals that the sweet scent of flowers may serve a sneakier purpose: co-opting humans into propagating and protecting them. This thought is leading researchers to the idea of emotion as an evolutionary force. For Brain Awareness Week at the University of Florida’s McKnight [...]

For some, successful aging means looking and acting like the young. But not when it comes to the brain. Imaging and molecular studies show that even when older adults perform at a high level, their brains often don’t do things in the same way as young people’s brains. In fact, it’s low-performing older adults whose [...]

Starting this summer, the University of Florida College of Medicine will offer a new master’s degree geared toward helping improve health outcomes and shortening the time between research discoveries and their use in clinical practice. “Under the traditional model of research, there is a long timeline between the research that occurs in labs and academic [...]

Opioid pain relievers prescribed to pregnant women have been linked to increasing rates of drug withdrawal among newborns, and that means new diagnosis and treatment approaches are needed, a UF pediatrics expert says. Those higher rates have led to the first comprehensive update and review of the issue by the American Academy of Pediatrics in [...]