Chensheng (Alex) Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology at the Harvard School of Public Health, argues for eating more organic food. Janet H. Silverstein, a professor of endocrinology at the University of Florida and a co-author of an American Association of Pediatrics study on the health benefits of an organic diet, takes the skeptic's view.
The Child Abuse Prevention Project has served a 16-county area of North Central Florida since 1983. It was a collaboration between the university and various state agencies. In these hard economic times, funding has been cut and the program is closing.
A week and a half after being bitten in the leg by an eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Ben Smith remains in the pediatric intensive care unit at UF Health Shands Hospital.
Safety is Paramount By: Shelley Collins, M.D., Chief, Hospital Medicine Safety is of the utmost importance for the University of Florida Department of Pediatrics and UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital. As such, we have made significant strides in recent months to enhance our internal safety measures. These process…
A startling study published last week in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology found that if 90 percent of moms in the United States breastfed, there would be 53,000 fewer cases of high blood pressure, 14,000 fewer heart attacks and nearly 5,000 fewer cases of breast cancer.
Children with a rare form of muscular dystrophy called Pompe disease often spend their days tethered to mechanical ventilators in order to breathe. But results from a new clinical trial at University of Florida (UF) Health show that gene therapy improved respiratory function in these patients and increased the time they could spend breathing on their own without assisted ventilation.
Taylor Haberman may not have gotten to dance at her high school prom or walk down the stage to accept her diploma at graduation, but thanks to the help of an adolescent palliative care organization, she was still able to celebrate those milestones from the Gainesville, Fla., hospital where she is awaiting a heart transplant.
Walking into the recently remodeled pediatrics department at UF Health feels a bit like falling into the sea — safely. The soft, sky-blue floors are etched with outstretched swallow-tailed kites, and skylights brighten the foyer — far removed from harsh glare of fluorescent lights that typify many medical clinics.
The University of Florida will offer the Fun & Fit Families program, geared toward the families of overweight children in Alachua County. It is a family-based lifestyle intervention that allows children and parents to collaborate in making healthy dietary and physical activity changes.
