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 […]
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 […]
The following article is reprinted from the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of the USF magazine RESEARCH: Dengue Fever and Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis are just two of the many serious threats to public health in Florida. While these diseases occasionally raise their heads in the news, most Floridians are apt to take […]
Dr. Eduardo Gotuzzo presented the 2007 Juan Bosch Lecture, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC) in conjunction with the Global Health Department, College of Public Health/USF. During his talk on “Emerging Diseases in the Americas” he outlined a range of new, reemerging […]