Jill Pease

Polio survivors visited the Doctor of Physical Therapy classroom to teach students about the special needs of patients with Post-Polio Syndrome.

PHHP launches new public health doctoral degree The College of Public Health and Health Professions received approval from Florida’s Board of Governors to offer a doctoral degree in public health beginning this fall. The new Ph.D. program will initially offer two concentration areas: environmental and global health, and social and…

Allyson G. Hall, Ph.D., has received a $250,000 grant from the Aetna Foundation to support a two-year study of the relationship between primary care medical homes, patient engagement and care outcomes.

A new University of Florida study shows that patrons leaving hookah cafés had carbon monoxide levels more than three times higher than patrons exiting traditional bars.

Jamie Reilly, Ph.D., is developing treatments that may help patients with progressive language impairments preserve language as the disease advances, helping patients to remember the name of a favorite place or loved one longer.

Babette Brumback, Ph.D., has been appointed to a four-year term on the Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences Study Section of the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review.

A new technique honed by University of Florida scientists can track rapid molecular changes that occur in cholera strains during epidemics and researchers hope the genetic analysis will help stamp out such outbreaks.

Some college students who think they have normal hearing may actually be overestimating their abilities. In a University of Florida study of college students who believed they had normal hearing, one-quarter did not have normal hearing sensitivity.

Inhale... Exhale... Whether we’re awake or asleep, breathing is a function that rarely gets a second thought. But when there’s a break in the respiratory system’s circuit, say with a spinal cord injury, breathing may not be so natural.

The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions has received approval from Florida’s Board of Governors to offer a doctoral degree in public health beginning this fall.