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Are you planning on ramping up your exercise regimen this summer? There may not be an app for that — at least not a reliable one.

“Diabetes is like a ‘speed bump’ — it slows you down for an instance but does not stop you from reaching your destination.”-Male, 18, Living with T1D 11 years If a picture is worth a thousand words, UF Health Type 1 diabetes researchers and their colleagues have tapped into…

Even though a safe HPV vaccine is available that can prevent several types of cancer, less than half of American teens youth in the U.S. receive the vaccine. Now a team of researchers, including four from the University of Florida Institute for Child Health Policy, has increased…

The Society for Prevention Research and the American Indian and Alaska Native Coordinating Committee of the National Institute on Drug Abuse have selected Brady Garrett, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy and counseling psychologist intern with Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health, to receive money towards the…

Increasing state alcohol taxes could prevent thousands of deaths a year from car crashes, say University of Florida Health researchers, who found alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes decreased after taxes on beer, wine and spirits went up in Illinois. A team of UF Health researchers discovered that fatal alcohol-related car crashes…

Leandra Stubbs, a master’s student in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, and Steve Newell, Ph.D., a recent graduate of the doctoral program in the Department of Psychology and master’s student in the Department of Health Outcomes & Policy, successfully defended their individual theses in early June. The thesis defense serves…