USF Health expands care for IBD patients
USF Health is expanding care within its digestive diseases program, creating a new center focused fully on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The USF Health Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center […]
Inhibiting thrombin protects against dangerous infant digestive disease
A USF Health-Johns Hopkins Medicine team shows that nanoparticles targeting the blood-clotting protein reduces necrotizing enterocolitis-like injury in neonatal mice TAMPA, Fla. (May 4, 2020) — Necrotizing enterocolitis […]
Sea squirt’s microbiome offers clues to frontline immune defense, gut health
National Science Foundation research by USF Health’s Larry Dishaw has relevance for debilitating digestive disorders like inflammatory bowel disease What can we learn about human health from the […]
USF neonatologist studies inflammatory pathways that may lead to new treatments for sickest newborns [multimedia]
University of South Florida neonatologist Akhil Maheshwari, MD, and his team advance research to understand, detect and identify novel treatments for necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC, a life-threatening inflammatory […]