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Almost 34 weeks into her pregnancy, Megan’s water broke. Panicked, knowing that she was about to deliver early, she was rushed to the hospital.

Kelly Shad Guillou and her daughter, Clementine, were at UF Health for a check-up with Jennifer L. Miller, M.D., a professor in the University of Florida College of Medicine’s division of pediatric endocrinology. Living with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS), Clementine depends on Miller’s expert care.

The College of Medicine recognizes several department of pediatric staff members as recipients of a 2022 Exemplary Teacher Award. This award recognizes up to 10% of the College of Medicine faculty nominated by their department Chair and selected based on their teaching excellence of medical students,…

Last school year marked a more than 10-year low for Florida’s kindergarten and seventh-grade students completing all doses of required immunizations, according to a recent report from the state Department of Health.

Two people who have been blind since childhood are having their vision restored with a gene therapy developed by University of Florida Health scientists and their collaborators, early-stage clinical trial results and recently published findings show.

Dr. Evelyn Obregon and Dr. Baxter Vernace received the 2023 ACGME David Leach Award.

That leaves the University of Florida’s Youth Gender Program as the only pediatric multidisciplinary academic center open to new referrals in the state, according to Michael Haller, a professor and chief of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Florida, who said he was not speaking on…

Dr. Shelley Collins, a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine, said that although UF Health has not seen the same increase in RSV cases as other places, there has been a noticeable rise in respiratory diseases in general such as rhinovirus and…

Pediatric endocrinologist Kristin Dayton explains those risks are rare and can typically be resolved with treatment. “People talk about blood clotting with estrogen and in fact the blood clotting risk with the type of estrogen we use for a trans female is going to be much lower than…

The annual event honored Dr. Barry Byrne as Innovator of the Year for his contributions to gene therapy and highlighted six teams of inventors for their Inventions of the Year.  …