UF Health Team Develops Technique To Conserve Oxygen During Acute Shortages
With the oxygen shortage in mind, a team at the University of Florida Health’s Center for Safety, Simulation and Advanced Learning Technologies, or CSSALT, conceived a novel way to prolong the life of oxygen cylinders by reducing oxygen waste.
‘A Year of Change’: UF Reflects on COVID-19 Milestones
The University of Florida is reflecting back on the milestones made in the last year through the COVID-19 pandemic. From the initial lockdown in March 2020 to the rollout of vaccines in December, reflecting back on the year of change helps us see just how far we’ve come.
UF and Scripps Research Announce Talks To Integrate
In a move designed to marry the clinical and educational expertise of the state’s flagship university with one of the world’s premier biomedical research enterprises, the University of Florida and Scripps Research announced they are in talks to integrate the Florida-based branch of Scripps Research with the research arm of UF’s academic health center.
UF Researchers Use AI To Develop Precision Dosing for Treatment Aimed at Preventing Dementia
University of Florida researchers studying the use of a non-invasive brain stimulation treatment paired with cognitive training have found the therapy holds promise as an effective, drug-free approach for someday warding off Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Patients With Severe COVID-19 Twice As Likely To Require Future Hospitalizations for Other Illnesses
People who have recovered from a bout of severe COVID-19 may still have a reason for concern about their health. A new University of Florida study has found that patients who had a severe case of the disease were more than twice as likely as patients who had mild or moderate COVID-19 to need hospitalization again for health problems caused by COVID-19 complications.
Deep Brain Stimulation Settings May Be Successfully Managed at Home After Surgery, Study Shows
New research shows that people receiving deep brain stimulation, or DBS, for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease may be managed successfully at home by a home health nurse in the months following surgical implantation.
UF Health Researchers Join Global Effort To Track COVID-19 Pandemic and Others in Future
University of Florida Health researchers are joining an ambitious global effort led by The Rockefeller Foundation to better track the coronavirus and its variants and set up a network of collaborators to stop any nascent pandemic in the future.
UF Health First in U.S. To Implant New, Advanced Deep Brain Stimulation System
A team of University of Florida Health neurosurgeons and neurologists recently became the first in the U.S. to implant a newly FDA-approved, technologically advanced deep brain stimulation system designed to more precisely target motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and two other movement disorders.
AI Technique Reveals Dysfunctional Gut Microbiome Bacteria’s Role in Depression and High Blood Pressure
To solve the elusive medical mystery of why many adults have both high blood pressure and depression, University of Florida Health researchers took a long, in-depth look at one suspected culprit: gut bacteria.
UF Health First To Place Kidney-Assist Device That Might Help Patients With Congestive Heart Failure
University of Florida Health researchers recently became the first to temporarily implant a new device in a patient with congestive heart failure, a procedure that one day could help physicians manage this potentially deadly condition.