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Sleep loss may harm your health – especially when combined with a high-fat diet

Tossing and turning all night is enough to make you feel tired and cranky the next day – but USF Health researchers say sleep deprivation creates additional problems […]

Do you really want that hamburger? Exploring the links between diet, gut health and diabetes

Countless people in the United States suffer from a condition called “leaky gut,’’ where the lining of the intestines becomes porous enough to allow toxins to seep through […]

More participants than ever present at USF Health Research Day 2023

This year’s USF Health Research Day set new records as more participants than ever filled the USF Tampa campus Marshall Student Center on March 3 to showcase the […]

Leaders form stronger ties at USF Health, Global Virus Network signing ceremony

Leaders from USF Health and the Global Virus Network (GVN) recently gathered on the University of South Florida campus in north Tampa to sign the final documents making […]

Top 10 USF Health News Stories of 2022

This year’s top stories highlight USF Health as an academic medical center.  Stories of patient gratitude, innovative research and development, and affirmation that the USF Health Morsani College […]

Antibiotics intended to heal can actually encourage resistance of life-threatening C. difficile infection

USF research teams led by Dr. Yu Chen and Dr. Xingmin Sun describe ways to control the No. 1 hospital-acquired bacterial infection in a paper published in the […]

Microbiome’s connection to heart failure key to new NIH study for USF Health’s Dr. Hariom Yadav

USF Health microbiome expert Hariom Yadav, PhD, has received a grant from the National Institute on Aging to help determine if a common medication can restore microbiome diversity […]

Morsani College of Medicine: the fastest rising medical school in the nation

The USF Health Morsani College of Medicine is the fastest-rising medical school in the country, climbing over the last decade from #80 to #46 in U.S. News & […]

Collaborative effort across Florida’s medical schools results in a statute expanding Medicaid coverage to include donor breastmilk

Collaborative effort across Florida’s medical schools results in a statute expanding Medicaid coverage to include donor breastmilk More Florida babies will have access to donor breastmilk with the […]

State grant advances USF Health research on how diet-related changes in gut and oral microbiomes affect the aging brain

The multisite study may identify measures to help prevent or delay mild cognitive impairment and dementias like Alzheimer’s disease TAMPA, Fla. (April 19, 2022) – The Florida Department […]

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