UF Health Study Shows Flu Vaccination Might Confer Protection Against Severe COVID-19
A flu vaccination might do more than protect against influenza. It might also shield some people from a severe case of COVID-19... Read More
‘A Smoking Gun’: Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air
Skeptics of the notion that the coronavirus spreads through the air — including many expert advisers to the World Health Organization —... Read More
“Teach-Back” Technique Can Reduce Hospital Visits
At a typical doctor visit, the physician does most of the explaining. But a new study shows that when certain patients “teach-back”... Read More
UF Researchers Develop Risk Score to Predict Deaths From Heart Attacks, Stroke in Every U.S. County
The COVID-19 crisis has reinforced the fact that racial, income and social inequalities play an important role in health and disease. The... Read More
Mainous elected to Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida
Arch G. Mainous III, Ph.D., the chair of the department of health services research, management and policy and the Florida Blue endowed... Read More
UF Researchers Launch Study on Small Materials That May Have a Big Impact on Protecting Communities From COVID-19
Through a newly-funded National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research, or RAPID grant, researchers in the University of Florida departments of environmental and global... Read More
Working Inside a COVID-19 Research Testing Lab
While you have probably heard of the conception of the high-capacity COVID-19 research lab built within just 10 days by various University... Read More
Can Air Conditioning Spread the Coronavirus? Why Experts Are Concerned About Public Spaces
Federal officials are exploring the role of the upcoming summer season on the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States, debating experts’ arguments... Read More
Coronavirus Consultant
John Lednicky, Ph.D., is a research professor, microbiologist and molecular biologist at UF’s College of Public Health and Health Professions and the Emerging Pathogens... Read More
Chlamydia’s Covert Reproduction
UF researchers have resolved a two-decade-old mystery centered upon how the bacteria chlamydia divide and reproduce. Newly published results from the lab... Read More
