Health + Science

Thick-heeled shoes, heel-strikes were associated with injury

Michael Bumbach, Ph.D., APRN,  has been working to make the transition to the professional health care world easier by incorporating artificial intelligence into classroom learning.

   

Wind engineer David Prevatt will join the state department to align science with policy.

Gator NeuroScholars program — with its highly competitive stipend and mentorship opportunities — is fairly new, it is already serving as a roadmap for other premier institutions. 

Whether they are automating repairs for NASA’s International Space Station, enhancing autonomous drone systems for the U.S. Air Force, or advancing teleoperated ultrasound technology for emergency care, University of Florida civil engineering students are at the forefront of innovation in robotics.  

Engineering professor Fan Ren named to this year's class.

Gene therapy address placental insufficiency in guinea pig model.

New tool measures the human qualities of robots to help engineers make better machines.

Florida youth are setting their career sights on the stars with the 4-H youth development program’s space-based career initiatives.

New research center combines experts across campus to investigate safe pain relief

A PHHP and Brooks Rehabilitation collaboration is accelerating the translation of new science to improve care

New project supported by UF strategic initiative funding will combine basic and clinical research with artificial intelligence to improve stroke treatments

David P. Arnold and Bryony Bonning of the University of Florida have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the organization announced Tuesday.

A grant from the UF president's strategic funding initiative supports breast cancer screening services where access is limited

A research team harnesses the James Webb Space Telescope to explore a galactic enigma.

UF Health became one of the first large academic health centers in the Southeast this year to begin using a robot-assisted system in total knee replacement surgeries.

The UF College of Dentistry is partnering with Overjet to empower the next generation of Gator Dentists with artificial intelligence to enhance clinical decision-making and patient communication.

A smartphone breathalyzer and blood-alcohol estimator reduced drinking — even though participants weren’t trying to drink less.

A new study suggests that when parents baby talk to their infants, they might be helping them learn to produce speech.

Immunotherapy is a hot topic of conversation when it comes to cancer treatment. Pediatric oncologist Dr. Elias Sayour and his team have found a way to make a hot tumor, their way to make immunotherapy, an alternative to chemotherapy, more effective.

After a ten-month long process, Team Space Bread was one of 18 U.S. teams move on to the next step in the competition. Each team received $25,000 and the option to continue developing their technology in Phase II.

A pair of over-the-counter compounds has been found in preliminary tests to inhibit the virus that causes COVID-19, University of Florida Health researchers have found.

Local COVID-19 transmission was underway in California, New York, Florida and Texas well before the first reported U.S. case in Washington state on Jan. 20, 2020, according to a new study published in Nature, which indicates the virus spread much earlier and faster in the United States and Europe than previously thought

Patients who have recovered from severe COVID-19 have more than twice the mortality risk within the year following their illness than people who have not contracted the virus

NASA has awarded the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Charge Management Device (CMD) contract to the University of Florida, Gainesville.

With artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have moved toward diagnosing Parkinson’s disease with, essentially, an eye exam. This relatively cheap and non-invasive method could eventually lead to earlier and more accessible diagnoses.

The University of Florida has awarded 20 faculty teams $50,000 each from UF Research's Artificial Intelligence Research Catalyst Fund to pursue a wide range of AI-related projects. The researchers will utilize the university’s world-leading computing capabilities to analyze vast amounts of data and predict solutions to health, agriculture, engineering and educational challenges. 

According to a new study led by University of Florida Health researcher Michelle Cardel, Ph.D., R.D., adolescent girls who play the game with the odds stacked against them may seek solace in food.

An out-of-this-world mission may help University of Florida researchers understand why adults lose muscle strength as they age. Tiny muscle cells contained on tissue chips are part of an innovative experiment bound for the International Space Station this week.

Three common antihistamine medications have been found in preliminary tests to inhibit infection of cells by the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, University of Florida Health researchers have found.