The USF Health Rothman Center for Neuropsychiatry in St. Petersburg is conducting a two-year federal trial testing the effectiveness of behavioral psychotherapy in treating anxiety among young adolescents with autism. USF is one three sites for the $1-million study, sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) through the American Recovery and [...] ... [Read]

Arthur Cohen was a healthy, active 85-year-old when his Toronto doctor recommended a colonoscopy to check for early signs of colorectal cancer. The c ... [Read]

THURSDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDay News) -- New cases of genital warts have declined sharply since vaccination of teen girls and young women against the hum ... [Read]

Recovery Act funds COPH study and pilot training program A USF College of Public Health researcher has received a highly competitive National Institutes of Health grant to create and evaluate a web-based training program to help dentists and dental hygienists identify patients with eating disorders and refer them for treatment. Rita DeBate, PhD, associate professor [...] ... [Read]

- Long research road delivers - USF Health neuroscientist Doug Shytle, PhD (right), accepts the Excellence in Innovation Award from Paul Sanberg, PhD, DSc, associate vice president for research and innovation. The University of South Florida’s 2009 “Excellence in Innovation” award was presented last week to R. Douglas Shytle, PhD, associate professor and research scientist in the [...] ... [Read]

     Imagine two retirees, both in Florida, both with similar lifestyles and health conditions. The only difference: one lives in Miami, the other in Tampa.       Chances are, the federal government spends nearly twice as much on the Miami retiree as the Tampa one.       Those are among the findings of a project called the Dartmouth Atlas, [...] ... [Read]

Three College of Public Health faculty members have been recognized with 2009 Outstanding Research Achievement Awards -- John Adams, PhD, Professor, Global Health; Russell Kirby, PhD, Professor and Marrell Endowed Chair, Community and Family Health; and Hamisu Salihu, MD, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology. The awards are bestowed on faculty whose exceptional research was recognized [...] ... [Read]

Some of the USF Health faculty awarded federal research stimulus funds. Since this spring, USF Health faculty submitted 116 proposals for economic stimulus funding available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The ARRA applicants gathered Oct. 6 in the USF Health Rotunda to celebrate the fruits of their collaborative efforts – 21 federal [...] ... [Read]

     The USF College of Medicine is expanding  its ability to study tiny things called “nanoparticles,”  thanks to a $1.39 million federal grant to its USF Nanomedicine Research Center.      The grant comes from the National Institutes of Health and is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.      The Nanomedicine Research Center’s  mission is to [...] ... [Read]

The antibiotic minocycline may revolutionize the treatment of strokes. A new study, published online Oct. 6 in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience, describes the safety and therapeutic effectiveness of the drug in animal models. Cesar V. Borlongan, PhD, a neuroscientist at the University of South Florida Center for Aging and Brain Repair, worked with [...] ... [Read]

     Hillsborough Circuit Judge Gregory Holder, left, and Chief Circuit Judge Manuel Menendez, right, donned white coats to help Dr. Steve Klasko, CEO of USF Health and dean of the USF College of Medicine, into a black judicial robe.      Lawyers and doctors came together in Tampa Oct. 6 for USF’s Black Robe Program, an event [...] ... [Read]

USF laboratory study shows drug targets chaperone Hsp70 to reduce Alzheimer’s protein Chad Dickey's team at the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute focuses on manipulating with drugs or gene therapy the chaperone proteins that control the fate of the the Alzheimer's protein tau. Tampa, FL (September 30, 2009) -- Inhibiting the protein Hsp70 rapidly reduces brain levels [...] ... [Read]

Timothy Bender and Desiree Del Orbe are among the USF undergraduate students learning about the ecology of Eastern equine encephalitis with the help of Hassan K. Hassan, MSc (center), a research associate in Dr. Thomas Unnasch's laboratory. While we spent the summer and entered the fall abuzz over the potential for H1N1 virus, or the [...] ... [Read]

It's far from bizarre for a man to be turned on by his lady love in lingerie. But when the garment becomes more sexually stimulating to the man than t ... [Read]

Ask any couple in a long-term relationship about their sex life and you're bound to hear something along the lines of, "It's not as hot as it use ... [Read]

Oral sex or oral-genital sex means both mouth contact with the vagina, which is called cunnilingus, and mouth contact with the penis, which is called ... [Read]