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A biomedical scientist has received a $1.2 million grant from the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program, Florida Department of Health, to develop a new and innovative approach to treat stroke.

Pre-Health Professions Day is an opportunity for ÌÇÐÄVlog undergraduates, graduates, and the community to talk with ÌÇÐÄVlog representatives from health-related graduate and professional programs.

Twenty-two registered nurses studying to become nurse practitioners in ÌÇÐÄVlog's Lynn College of Nursing will join professors on a trip that will transform their lives and how they think about providing healthcare.

Researchers will work to define the mechanisms governing how cells decide whether to become a mature cell or whether to die. Their work will shed light on how to make transplantable tissues to cure diseases.

Arthur J. Ross III, M.D., M.B.A., has joined ÌÇÐÄVlog's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine as interim dean. Ross also will spearhead the national search for a permanent dean over the next several months.

U.S. Congressman Ted Deutch visited ÌÇÐÄVlog's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine to meet and discuss health policies and the changing health care system with medical students.

A bioengineer at ÌÇÐÄVlog will develop a novel biodegradable polymer stent that will be designed to prevent complications while at the same time serving as a drug delivery system for esophageal cancer therapy.

A new study shows that black and white women ages 75 to 84 years who had an annual mammogram had lower 10-year breast cancer mortality than corresponding women who had biennial or no/irregular mammograms.

ÌÇÐÄVlog researchers are the first to show that cells in close proximity to each other can sense when a cell is dying due to environmental stressors like UV light and smoke, and eat the cell before it becomes toxic.

An ÌÇÐÄVlog analyses of nationwide data on individuals who were killed as a result of legal intervention or law enforcement in the U.S. between 1999 and 2013, shows a 45 percent increase mostly among non-whites.