Academic health centers have led the nation in advancing health-care delivery, biomedical and behavioral science research, education of health professionals and scientists, and community service for more than half of the past century. These centers are uniquely positioned to make such advances because many of them encompass within one campus colleges of medicine, nursing, dentistry, [...]

As the university marks its 150th anniversary beginning this month, the UF Health Science Center celebrates 47 years of dynamic growth that has changed the face of health care in the Southeast and helped put UF on the world map. Discoveries and developments by its faculty have enhanced the quality and scope of health care. [...]

University of Florida pathologists Edward J. Wilkinson, M.D., and Heather M. Brown, M.D., have developed a new classification strategy for vulvar Paget disease—cancer of the vulvar skin—based on its origin. Wilkinson presented their research at an October 2002 meeting of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ Study Group on Genital Tract Neoplasia in London. [...]

All pet owners in Florida whose animals need state-of-the-art veterinary care will benefit from the new Small Animal Hospital that University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine administrators hope to build. The project is a key fund-raising aim of the college due to space constraints brought about by increased student enrollment, as well as demand [...]

The study and treatment of bone and muscle diseases will be enhanced by a $23 million Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Institute to be built by the University of Florida College of Medicine. The medical school’s department of orthopaedics and rehabilitation has selected the design-build firm of Turner Construction Co./URS Corp. to build the four-story [...]

University of Florida officials are heralding the Jacksonville City Council’s recent approval of a $19 million bond issue to help establish Florida’s first proton beam cancer treatment facility at Shands Jacksonville Medical Center. Groundbreaking ceremonies for the long-anticipated project have been scheduled for 10 a.m. Jan. 29. “The current schedule calls for us to move [...]

University of Florida researchers have set up a new Web site to help people concerned about smallpox bioterrorism evaluate the risk posed by the viral disease, and the vaccine intended to prevent it. Vaccinations are now under way for U.S. medical, military and law enforcement personnel and a voluntary program for the general public could [...]

Construction of a new building for UF’s genetics, cancer and biotechnology research centers should be under way by late fall, with a tentative completion anticipated in spring 2006. The project will result in a multidisciplinary biomedical research facility for the UF Genetics Institute, the UF Shands Cancer Center and the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research [...]

Caring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, often an overwhelming task, may be easier for family members worldwide thanks to an interactive program developed by University of Florida researchers and available by telephone and the World Wide Web. The first-of-its-kind program, UF’s Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Online, is staffed by UF psychology professionals who conduct live, interactive [...]

Grandmothers will be putting their knack for caring to good use through a new University of Florida-led statewide initiative to identify low-income children with special health-care needs and enroll them in Florida’s public health insurance programs. The Telehealth Connections for Children and Youth program, funded by a four-year, $1 million federal grant, will recruit grandmothers [...]