USF Health In the News – for the week of July 11, 2011
For the week of July 11, 2011 – a snapshot of our colleagues making news across the country and around the world
TELEVISION NEWS
You can access recent television news stories about USF Health here: Media Clips Gallery
Dr. Edwards weighs in on whether obese kids should be taken from their parents on Fox 13
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/health/should-obese-kids-be-taken-from-parents-07132011
Dr. Kyle discusses mosquito control on ABC Action News
http://www.criticalmention.com/report/11160×224471.htm
Dr. Wolfson talks about hospital acquired infection rates on ABC Action News
Attacking Ataxia – Medstar TV
http://hscvideo2.hsc.usf.edu/asxroot/HSC/Public_Affairs/2011_medstar_ataxia.asx
Tracking Dancer Injuries – Medstar TV
http://hscvideo2.hsc.usf.edu/asxroot/HSC/Public_Affairs/2011_medstar_dancers.asx
PRINT & ONLINE NEWS
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Sarasota heart patients could regrow their own tissue
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
“We believe we can be one of the leaders that people talk about, in gene and stem cell therapy and personalized health,” said Stephen Klasko, dean of the College of Medicine.
Physician Spotlight – Neil A. Fenske, MD
Tampa Bay Medical News
“I’m a guy who came up the hard way,” said Fenske, chairman of the Department of Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa.
USF study shows targeted workouts might protect firefighters from injuries
Tampa Tribune
Tampa Fire Rescue District Chief Toby Hart demonstrates some of the different exercises utilized in a University of South Florida study researching prevention of lower back pain in about 100 firefighters…
Fla. University to Study Firefighter Exercising
Firehouse.com
The University of South Florida won a federal grant worth more than $700000 to see how an exercise routine targeting the back helps Tampa firefighters. The research involves about 100 firefighters from 21 Tampa Fire Rescue stations — half in a control…
Young Adults With Asperger’s Cope Differently Growing Up
HealthyState.org
DeMarco’s teacher is an example of what can go wrong when people are diagnosed with a developmental disorder, according to Karen Berkman, PhD, executive director of the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University of South Florida. …
New developments in elder care, research to affect South County
Observer News
Meanwhile, as the population ages, more and more people get some form of dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, said Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, former director of the Suncoast Gerontology Center at the University of South Florida.
How to Measure Secondhand Smoke Exposure in a Pediatric Clinic Setting
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Divisions of Pulmonology (Drs Couluris and Schnapf and Ms Casey) and Epidemiology (Mss Xu and Gross-King and Dr Krischer), Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa.
Coffee repels Alzheimer’s: Study
The Journal Gazette
“Caffeinated coffee provides a natural increase in blood GCSF levels,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Chuanhai Cao, of the university’s Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute. “The exact ways that this occurs is not understood.”
Is job stress making President Barack Obama go gray?
St. Petersburg Times (Lexis Nexis)
“It’s a controversial topic and there are several theories,” said Dr. Mary Lien, a dermatologist and assistant professor in the department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of South Florida. One theory holds that stress produces …
The Best Coffee For Your Brain
MSN Health & Fitness (Mason City Globe Gazette)
But rather than guzzling down super-caffeinated drinks such as Red Bull or taking stay-awake caffeine pills such as NoDoz, researchers at the University of South Florida say coffee might be the way to go. A new study points not to caffeine but rather…
Sertoli cells show promise for therapeutics
Nanotechnology News (EurekAlert
, News-Medical Net, MediLexicon)
The USF study tested the delivery of an anti-inflammatory compound to the deep lungs of animals modeled with pulmonary inflammation and found a “high…
Therapeutic Potential of Human Sertoli Cells
MedIndia (Innovations Report)
In a study seeking a better way to get medication to lower lung areas, such as to the alveoli and other areas difficult to reach and in which to retain therapeutics, University of South Florida (USF) researchers report that rat Sertoli cells loaded…
Embryonic Stem Cells Used in New Model for Studying Germ Cell Tumors in Testes
MediLexicon
…by transplanting embryonic stem cells into the seminiferous tubules in mouse models, resulting in the development of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) that mimic…Instructor at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida.
Neural Stem Progenitor Cell Transplantation’s Potential To Aid Spinal Cord Injury Tested
MediLexicon
…in animal models of spinal cord injury (SCI) has demonstrated that intralesional (IL) injection conferred benefits over intravenous injection (IV coeditor-in-chief of Cell Transplantation and executive director of the University of South Florida Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair…
Study Tests Neural Stem Progenitor Cell Transplantation’s Potential to Aid Spinal Chord Injury
MedIndia
…cell transplantation directly into the lesion site after spinal cord injury” said Dr. Paul Sanberg, coeditor-in-chief of Cell Transplantation and executive director of the University of South Florida Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair…
Embryonic Stem Cells Incorporated in New Model for Studying Germ Cell Tumors in Testes
MedIndia
…the development of an animal model of testicular germ cell tumor formation” said Dr. David Eve, associate editor of Cell Transplantation and Instructor at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida…
New model for studying germ cell tumors in testes enlists embryonic stem cells
EurekAlert
…the development of an animal model of testicular germ cell tumor formation” said Dr. David Eve, associate editor of Cell Transplantation and Instructor at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, University of South Florida…
Jackson Lab pursuing research partnership in New York
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Jackson’s partners in Sarasota County would have been the University of South Florida and Sarasota Memorial Hospital. “We understand Florida’s budget situation, and we will turn our attention to other priorities,” Jackson executive vice president…
Alzheimer’s Caregivers Find Hope, Support in Nonprofit
Patch.com
Truman’s mother was eventually diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at USF’s Memory Disorders Clinic. “When you hear that diagnosis, you just want to sit down for days; it really hits you,” Truman said. “It confirms what you didn’t want to believe but knew was…
