Women’s pelvic pain often goes underreported, untreated
Posted On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: gynecology, Health study, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Although many women experience pelvic pain in their late teens and early 20s, a new University of Florida Health study indicates that only a small fraction of these women report their symptoms to their doctors and seek treatment, leaving some health problems unresolved.
Up to 72 percent of ...
Genetic rarity rules in wild guppy population, study finds
Posted On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, journal Nature, Kimberly A. Hughes, understanding variation in humans
When it comes to choosing a mate, female guppies don’t care about who is fairest. All that matters is who is rarest. Florida State University Professor Kimberly A. Hughes in the Department of Biological Science has a new study just published in the journal Nature that is the first to ...
UF Faculty Finds Some Mind-Body Therapies may reduce effects of functional bowel disorders
Posted On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: functional bowel disorders, Oliver Grundmann, UF College of Nursing, UF College of Pharmacy, University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Although some health care providers may overlook alternative therapies when treating functional bowel disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome, University of Florida faculty members have found evidence that hypnosis and cognitive behavioral therapy may benefit patients suffering from these diseases.
Led by researchers Oliver Grundmann of the UF ...
UF Faculty Finds Some Mind-Body Therapies May Reduce Effects of Functional Bowel Disorders
Posted On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: functional bowel disorders, Oliver Grundmann, UF College of Nursing, UF College of Pharmacy, University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Although some health care providers may overlook alternative therapies when treating functional bowel disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome, University of Florida faculty members have found evidence that hypnosis and cognitive behavioral therapy may benefit patients suffering from these diseases.
Led by researchers Oliver Grundmann of the UF ...
First preeminence funding to advance new research frontiers
Posted On Monday, October 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: artists, educators, engineers, natural scientists, scientists, UF President Bernie Machen, UF Provost Joe Glover, University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With a computerized world generating colossal amounts of information, many experts believe the emerging science of big data will lead to bold new insights in fields from biology to business.
Now, a team of University of Florida scientists, engineers, artists, educators, natural scientists and others will help to ...
Researchers Find Potential Link Between Gum Disease and Alzheimer’s
Posted On Monday, October 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: Alzheimer's, College of Dentistry, gum disease, potential link, University of Central Lancashire, University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Oral bacteria from poor dental hygiene have been linked to brain tissue degeneration, according to new evidence from an international team of researchers, including one at the University of Florida College of Dentistry.
UF’s Lakshmyya Kesavalu, an associate professor in the College of Dentistry department of periodontology, and ...
New Study Predicts Behavior of Juvenile Offenders
Posted On Saturday, September 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: aggression, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, control emotions, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, R-PACT data
Extensive data collected by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) can help predict which youths are most likely to commit additional crimes following release from a residential placement. Also, youths often experience improvements in behavior during their residential stay, and those with the greatest improvements are less likely to commit new ...
UF Receives Grant to Join National Metabolomics Consortium
Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: Arthur S. Edison, ational Institutes of Health, omics, Southeast Center for Integrated Metabolomics, University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –– To help chart the course of biomedical discovery in the newest of the “-omics” frontiers, the University of Florida today launched the Southeast Center for Integrated Metabolomics with a five-year, $9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
An emerging field, metabolomics is the study of small ...
Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World
Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ARKANSAS, DELAWARE, FEATURED, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, HAWAII, INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH DAKOTA, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, VERMONT, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON DC, WEST VIRGINIA Tags: cardiology, health care facility, joint replacement, low cost, Medical tourism, medical tourists, medical treatments, orthopedic surgery
Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...
Survey Finds Concern About Impact of Interest Rates on Florida Real Estate Markets
Posted On Friday, September 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies, real estate market, University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rising interest rates could dampen the recovery of Florida’s real estate market, a new University of Florida survey suggests.
A look at the second quarter of this year found the general investment outlook for all sectors of the market declined for the first time in two years, according ...
Majority of Teens Think Prescription Stimulant use is a Problem Among Peers
Posted On Thursday, September 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: Denver, epidemiology, houston, Linda B. Cottler, Los Angeles, Sonam Lasopa, University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. —Two-thirds of young people surveyed said the use of prescription stimulants is a moderate-to-large problem among youth, according to a new University of Florida study. Nearly 15 percent said they had used a prescription stimulant, the study shows, and almost 12 percent reported diverting medications by giving their ...
Scoring System Could Help Reduce Adverse Drug Events in Hospital Patients
Posted On Thursday, August 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: American Society, College of Pharmacy, Pharmacists Foundation, UF College of Pharmacy, University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida College of Pharmacy researchers are working closely with colleagues at UF Health to identify hospital patients at greatest risk for preventable adverse drug events.
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Foundation has awarded a two-year, $499,000 grant to College of Pharmacy researcher Almut Winterstein, to lead ...
Researcher awarded $1.8 million to study gender differences in antidepressant effects
Posted On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: College of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University, Mohamed Kabbaj, National Institute of Mental Health
In low doses, the general anesthetic drug ketamine works as an antidepressant, and for females the boost in mood is easier to achieve.
A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher is learning more about why this drug, used as an antidepressant for the last decade, requires a higher dosage to ...
Retired Statistics Professor Honored by American Statistical Association
Posted On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: American Statistical Association’s, Florida State University, Joint Statistical Meeting, Noether Senior Scholar Award, Professor Emeritus Jayaram Sethuraman
Florida State University statistics Professor Emeritus Jayaram Sethuraman received the American Statistical Association’s Noether Senior Scholar Award Aug. 6 at the 2013 Joint Statistical Meeting, the largest gathering of statisticians in North America.
The award is given annually to a distinguished senior researcher or teacher in nonparametric statistics. It is named ...
Novelist, Essayist and Poet will be Featured Speaker at Summer
Posted On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: Anybodies Trilogy, doctorates, Donald L. Tucker, Eric J. Barron, HarperCollins, Julianna Baggott, Louisiana State University
You might say that Florida State University will have three speakers in one during its summer 2013 commencement ceremony.
Novelist, essayist and poet Julianna Baggott, who writes under her real name as well as pseudonyms Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode, will deliver the commencement address at the summer ceremony, which will be ...
USF Professor Driving Force in Caribbean STEM Education Initiative
Posted On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: Maya Trotz, SAGICOR, STEM education, University of South Florida, Visionaries Challenge
TAMPA, Fla. – USF Associate Professor Maya Trotz studies the intersection of engineering and technology with the development of sustainable communities. For the last year the crossroads of her work have been in the Caribbean, where she led an effort to transform how science, technology, engineering and math is taught ...
Florida State Names New Vice Predisent for Finance and Administration
Posted On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: Florida State University, Kyle C. Clark, Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University System
Florida State University announced July 19 the appointment of Kyle C. Clark, vice president for Administration and Finance and chief financial officer at Texas Tech University, as the new vice president of Finance and Administration, effective Sept. 1.
In his new position, Clark will lead the university’s financial and administrative infrastructure ...
New Dean To Take Reins of College of Nursing
Posted On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: Florida State University College of Nursing, Jilin University, Judith McFetridge-Durdle, Memorial University of Newfoundland, University in Halifax, vascular system
Judith McFetridge-Durdle, dean and professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador School of Nursing in Canada, has been named dean of the Florida State University College of Nursing, starting Dec. 2.
McFetridge-Durdle, who has been in her current position since 2009, has an extensive background in nursing education and practice ...
