Using gene transfer techniques pioneered by University of Florida faculty, Taiwanese doctors have restored some movement in four children bedridden with a rare, life-threatening neurological disease. The first-in-humans achievement may also be helpful for more common diseases such as Parkinson’s that involve nerve cell damage caused by lack of a crucial molecule in brain tissue. [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download You might think that skull and crossbones tattoo on your arm or that red rose perched discreetly on your derriere are made with liquid ink. But it’s possible the ink is instead a pigment made up of fine crystalline solids. Researchers publishing in the British Journal of Dermatology [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download No one would blame you if you thought I-C-D 10 was some type of missile. Or perhaps a dye used in children’s cereal. In fact, I-C-D 10 is the coding system used to differentiate between types of diseases … and it has generated a fair amount of controversy [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download It’s official. There’s a baby on board, and within a matter of months, you’ll be a mom. For many women, news of the stork’s impending arrival is enough to send them into a warp-speed worry mode. Couple this anxiety with money woes or other crises and you’ve got [...]

Spring term at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy has brought a full round of support from students and faculty for W. Thomas Smith, Pharm.D., J.D., a clinical associate professor in pharmaceutical outcomes and policy. Voted teacher of the year, Smith now takes the helm as director of the college’s Online Master of Science [...]

Roger Fillingim, Ph.D., a professor in Community Dentistry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Florida College of Dentistry, will take the reigns of the American Pain Society during its annual scientific meeting in Honolulu in May. Fillingim has been a member of the APS since 1987 and has served in several leadership roles including [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download What comes to mind when you think of gray hair? Wisdom? The inexorable march of time? The beauty of the old? A pesky problem that must be dyed into submission? Though you might associate graying with the death of your lovely tresses, gray hair is actually associated with [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download You’ve checked in and printed your boarding pass, checked your luggage, made it through the long security line, boarded the plane and are finally snug in your seat with your seat belt buckled. Time to settle in with a good book and enjoy the free beverage service, one [...]

University of Florida researchers teamed with colleagues at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., to devise a new combination therapy that reverses established Type 1 diabetes in mice. The findings, which appear today (May 9) in the journal Science Translational Medicine, set the stage for the development of a new human therapy [...]