What You Need to Know About the Possible Smell/Taste Link to COVID-19
As more anecdotes surface from physicians around the world about patients with COVID-19 losing their senses of smell and taste, we asked... Read More
UF Health Anesthesiology Team Devises Respirator Mask Made From Existing Hospital Materials
With respiratory masks used by health workers battling the coronavirus in short supply, the University of Florida Health’s department of anesthesiology has... Read More
UF Researchers Lead the Way in Rapidly Designing, Building Low-Cost, Open-Source Ventilator
As a University of Florida mechanical engineering student decades ago, Samsun Lampotang, Ph.D., helped respiratory therapist colleagues build a minimal-transport ventilator that... Read More
COVID-19 Highlights Need for Blood Donations
As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic continues to escalate, experts are warning of a dire shortage of blood as donors stay home and... Read More
Coronavirus and Parkinson’s Disease
Watch Dr. Michael S. Okun, chair and professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Florida, administrative director and co-director... Read More
Certain Compounds May Block Coronavirus From Cells, UF Health Researcher Finds
Computer simulations run by a University of Florida Health researcher have shown that three compounds appear to have the potential to block... Read More
Some Things Can Wait, Colorectal Cancer Doesn’t
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the U.S., and second-leading cause of death, taking 50,000 lives each year. However,... Read More
How Childhood Cancer Research Is Advancing
Cancer doesn’t discriminate when it comes to who it affects and sometimes even otherwise healthy children can be diagnosed with the disease.... Read More
UF Health Opens New Center to Help Those With Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
University of Florida Health cut the ribbon on its new Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment, a multidisciplinary, collaborative facility that will provide... Read More
Twelve Leading Medical Centers Unite to Form Brain Tumor Research Collaborative
The UF Health-led ReMission Alliance Against Brain Tumors announced the names of twelve partner institutions from across the U.S. and Canada that... Read More
