University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In the month after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, millions grappled with the emotional heartache of a national tragedy. Scientists now have discovered new evidence of physical consequences for the heart as well among patients living hundreds of miles from Ground Zero who rely on a pacemaker-like device that corrects dangerously rapid arrhythmias with electric shock.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Young blacks know less about hearing loss than their white counterparts, but those in both groups turn a deaf ear to advice about how to protect themselves in noisy settings, a new UF study shows.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new low-carbohydrate, high-protein food product created by University of Florida researchers could give dieters a new weapon in the battle against obesity.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A potent neurotoxin can be used to zap rogue nerve cells responsible for triggering chronic pain after paralyzing spinal cord injury in rats, an approach scientists have labeled molecular neurosurgery, University of Florida researchers report in the online edition of Neuroscience Letters.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Armed with increasingly effective drug regimens, physicians have cut short-term rejection rates in the months after kidney transplantation in half. Yet recent analysis of a national database reveals the odds the lifesaving organs will ultimately fail years later have risen, University of Florida researchers report in the March issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The devices that make possible e-mail, e-news and e-commerce may end their days as e-hazardous waste.