USF Health Pediatric Pulmonology Becomes a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation-Accredited Core Center
USF Health pediatric pulmonology has met the extensive requirements to become a cystic fibrosis core center, a designation that offers funding opportunities for research and drug development […]
USF Health rapidly expands telehealth to keep patients connected to medical specialists
The current coronavirus outbreak is not preventing USF Health patients from seeing their providers. As the pandemic grew last week and most of Florida shifted to working remotely […]
USF Health welcomes Dr. Douglas Haladay as director of MCOM’s physical therapy program
USF Health announced that Douglas Haladay, DPT, PhD, has been appointed director of the School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences (SPTRS) and associate dean of the USF […]
Top 10 USF Health News Stories of 2019
With another year – and another decade – comes to a close. USF Health looks back across 2019 at the successes of faculty and staff, advances in research, […]
Black children respond differently to step-up asthma therapy
USF Health’s Dr. Juan Carlos Cardet was among the authors of a new multi-site clinical study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine Black children respond differently […]
Unexpected viral behavior linked to type 1 diabetes in high-risk children
A TEDDY study, led by USF Health’s Kendra Vehik, has discovered unexpected connections between viruses and T1D Tampa, FL (Dec. 2, 2019) — New results from The Environmental […]
It will take a cross-discipline approach to halt the opioid crisis, experts at IPE Day say
Cross-discipline and inter-agency efforts are likely to have the greatest impact on the current opioid epidemic. That was the take-away message at this year’s USF Health Interprofessional Education […]
Health team returns from Bahamas
The four USF Health physicians who traveled the Bahamas to offer medical help to evacuees from Hurricane Dorian have returned, sharing details about their effort. Seetha Lakshmi, MD, […]
USF Health physicians fly to Bahamas to help provide medical care [video]
Four USF Health physicians boarded a small jet airplane Sept. 20 and headed to the Bahamas to provide medical care to those in shelters in Nassau. Working with […]
MCOM researchers part of study using new mouse model linking transfusions to dangerous digestive disease in infants
USF Health Heart Institute scientists developed nanoparticles deployed to suppress inflammation in the bowels of anemic infant mice, preventing transfusion-associated intestinal injury Physicians have long suspected that red […]