Articles tagged as

department of community health and family medicine

Edenfield stands in front of the Olympic rings.

Just keep swimming

In Alumni, College, Faculty, Featured Article
Alumna and faculty member Katie Edenfield, M.D. ’07, goes from pool to clinic to world stage
By Styliana Resvanis
Pots in the prison kitchen at the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince.

Haitian prisoners are severely malnourished, study finds

In Featured Article, Research
Men in Haitian prisons consume fewer than 500 calories a day, are at risk for developing scurvy and beriberi
By Jill Pease
A child learns how to test blood sugar.

Some in-home tests for average blood sugar levels less accurate than traditional method

In College, Featured Article, Research
The findings were published recently in the journal Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics
By Doug Bennett
Health care workers prep a patient in the I-C-U.

Patients who recover from severe COVID-19 still have significant risk of death, UF study finds

In Featured Article, Research, Uncategorized
The study underscores the serious effects the virus can have on the body
By Jill Pease
Aaron Saguil

Dr. Aaron Saguil to lead Department of Community Health and Family Medicine

In College, Faculty
Saguil, a 1999 College of Medicine graduate, has spent 22 years as an Army physician
Rendering of the new Student Health Care Center.

UF begins construction on state-of-the-art Student Health Care Center building

In College, Featured Article
The state-of-the-art, 46,000-square-foot facility will focus on comprehensive health care needs
The UF Mobile Outreach Clinic bus

Department of community health and family medicine works to improve health and well-being

In College, Faculty, Featured Article
Empowering people to take charge of their health
By Karen Dooley
Young doctor talking with older patient in clinic.

Having a single personal doctor may sometimes lead to unnecessary tests, UF study finds

In College, Featured Article, Research
The study appears in Frontiers in Medicine
By Jill Pease
A U-F Health staff member gets a flu shot from a nurse.

UF Health study shows flu vaccination might confer protection against severe COVID-19

In College, Featured Article, Research
Study shows flu shot might confer protection against more severe cases of COVID-19
By Bill Levesque
A man wearing a white coat talks on a cell phone

Building resilient, healthy physicians

In Alumni, College, Featured Article, Giving
Father endows fund for medical students and residents in memory of his son, UF Health resident Sey Park, MD ’16
By Tyler Francischine