Combining an anti-inflammatory drug with an antiviral drug reduces recovery time and accelerates improvement for COVID-19 patients, a national study co-authored by UF Health researchers has found.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the world, the resulting economic consequences are negatively affecting people and businesses alike. With unemployment rates rivaling that of the Great Depression and many businesses hanging ‘closed’ signs in their windows, people are struggling to make essential payments – a major one being their personal and business properties.
UF researchers ask how knowledge, attitudes and behaviors regarding the COVID-19 pandemic may affect infection rates, and the mental health, of children and their parents.
Alex Fox-Alvarez leads online small group rounds with UF veterinary students on the surgery clinical clerkship who now required to learn remotely.
The race to defeat the novel coronavirus took a major leap forward last week when the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorized the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in children 12 to 15 years old.
To learn how we might fight the next viral pandemic, consider an engine on a commercial jet.
An engineer can recreate that engine and its every component on a computer.
In most of the world, much of us are still at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But getting stuck in our home can lead to boredom.
Infectious disease specialist and physician Kartikeya Cherabuddi, explains what medical doctors monitor and how they treat patients.
Patients with severe cases of COVID-19 who were treated with the investigational drug remdesivir recovered faster than those who did not take it, based on results released this week of an international clinical trial that included UF Health.
Recent research shows that about 80% of those who took up gardening since the beginning of COVID-19 will continue the pastime in 2021.
University of Florida virus experts are gathering genomic sequences from coronaviruses around the world to drive artificial intelligence (AI) research that could predict future spread and outbreaks of this and other strains.
As the physical and socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be explored by different experts, researchers at UF are using data from the past to establish a method for predicting the near-term economic impacts of the pandemic.