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Utah Families Grapple With Rare Disease, Hope for Progress

If 3-year-old Evan skips his routine dose of cornstarch every fourth hour, the cost could be his life. He has to consume. Evan is afflicted with glycogen storage disease, a rare, life-threatening illness that is more common in Utah than any other state.

July Department Highlights

Great strides are made every day in the Department of Pediatrics. A few are highlighted below. Michael Weiss, M.D., Featured in a UF Health Commercial Dr. Weiss was selected for his work with body cooling therapy on newborns who are deprived of oxygen during birth and for his dedication to…

Acid-Suppressing Drugs Overprescribed in Infants

Christopher Jolley, MD, a professor and the chief of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at the University of Florida College of Medicine, in Gainesville, agreed that the “dramatic increase in PPI usage is concerning”.

Would Americans Be Better Off Eating a Mostly Organic Diet?

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.

Best wishes

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.

UF Pediatrics – Safety Strides

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…

Breastfeeding Problems: Advice From Experts For Successful Nursing

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.