Despite black box warnings, USF public health researcher finds antidepressants dramatically lower suicide attempts Tampa, FL (Sept. 6, 2007) – In a highly unusual move, the FDA may rescind one of its mandates for warning labels to be placed on a group of medications, and the reasoning resides in the […]
On September 17, 2007, health experts gathered for a reception to mark the 10th anniversary of the Lawton & Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies at the USF College of Public Health. The evening’s special guests included Rhea Law, widow of the late Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, and […]
* Dr. Charles Mahan, currently a Profesor & Dean Emeritus of the USF College of Public Health and the Chiles Center, helped organize public hearings around the country regarding infant mortality. The public hearings were held by then Senator Lawton Chiles. When Chiles became a Florida Governor, Dr. Mahan served […]
SAVORY BUTTER BEANS by Greg Alexander We made this recipe using dry butter beans (lima beans). Broad beans work well too. These beans are tasty either way, but according to the Doctor of Butterbeans, fresh ones have great color. Wields: J food-sized bowl of beans) 4 cups Fresh butter beans, washed 2 tbsp Butter 1/2 CUP Andouille sausage, chopped (1 sausage) Y.2 CUP Smoked ham, chopped 5 cups Water 1 tsp. Dry savory leaves (1 tbsp fresh) 1 tsp. Ham soup base 8-10 Whole green peppercorns 1 Shallot, finely minced […]
Read the Reuters Health story about Dr. Salihu’s research on obesity and stillbirth risk… Dr. Hamisu Salihu Obese women are 40 percent more likely than normal-weight or overweight women to have their pregnancies end in stillbirth, according to a study in the the current issue of the journal Obstetrics and […]
It sits on a sprawling, metropolitan college campus. Outside, you’re greeted by swaying palm trees and dancing rays of sunlight bouncing off huge glass windows. It is unmistakably Florida. What happens inside is even more impressive! For ten years the Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies […]
We all wash with it. We all drink it. But Max Moreno is taking his interest in water a step further by analyzing its interaction with human development and determining what makes good, quality water. Moreno is a doctoral student and research assistant in the Department of Environmental and Occupational […]
For 16 years, it’s been their safe space…the place that takes care of them when others won’t. Ask anyone on the receiving end of the Florida Family AIDS Network what the program does and they’ll tell you it’s a life-line for families across the Tampa Bay area. It’s no surprise […]