The race to find effective treatments for COVID-19 isn’t just about developing new drugs. University of Florida Health scientists are studying a trio of existing medications known to have broad antiviral activity.
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More people have reported having seriously considered suicide, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.
Lewy body dementia was highlighted in the news twice this week with the death of Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver from Lewy body dementia complications and the release of “Robin’s Wish,” a documentary about Robin Williams’ final years, when the actor lived with Lewy body dementia.
A protein thought to be the novel coronavirus’ entryway into the body could not be detected in the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas in three dozen individuals.
New research from the University of Florida provides strong evidence that aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may be possible.
“You need large numbers and multiple products in many different settings tested in many different kinds of people to assess whether they’re really safe and effective,” said Ira Longini, a professor at UF PHHP and UF Medicine.
Seven University of Florida neuroscientists have earned Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Trust Bridge Funds.
The heavily industrialized and populated regions of Northern Italy, particularly Lombardy, have the highest rates of air pollution in the country. They also have had the country’s highest rates of COVID-19 deaths.
In a year unlike any other due to COVID-19, who can you trust when it comes to real-time information regarding a global pandemic?
Q&A with Assistant Professor of museum studies and cultural heritage informaticist Dr. Porchia Moore.
The technique uses a harmless virus to help fight a harmful virus. In this case, the harmless virus is used to package and deliver a gene from SARS-CoV-2, the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The gene therapy vaccine can’t replicate on its own but is potent enough to trigger a beneficial, antivirus response from the immune system.