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UF Health Shands Children's Hospital has been ranked as Florida's top children's hospital in Diabetes and Endocrinology by U.S. News & World Report, 2015.

UF Health researchers use photos to understand how Type 1 diabetes affects children, meeting a critical need for research that addresses children’s perspectives. Read more.

Todd M. Manini, associate professor in the Department of Aging and Geriatric Research, was quoted in a recent Reuters article about slight physical activity leading to substantial health benefits. The story also ran In Fox News, Yahoo! Finance and The Huffington Post. Read more.

Anastasia Albanese-O’Neil, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UF College of Nursing and Jonas Scholar alum, recently shared her research on mobile diabetes technology at the Southern Nursing Research Society annual conference. Read more.

A new treatment that may reverse the effects of the most common type of lupus has shown promising results after undergoing early testing by a team of researchers at UF Health.

Read about the UF Diabetes Institute's 2014 accomplishments as highlighted in the January column of “On the Same Page” by David S. Guzick, M.D., Ph.D., UF senior vice president for health affairs and president of UF Health. Read more.

Researchers at the University of Florida Diabetes Institute and University of Miami Diabetes Research Institute will share a new $3.3 million collaborative grant awarded by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust that will help fast-track significant discoveries in Type 1 diabetes worldwide. Read more.

Kenneth Cusi, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E., Chief of Division of Adult Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Florida, is featured in the January print issue of Endocrine Today for research related to the underlying links between diabetes and liver disease. The cover story focuses on the complicated relationship between diabetes and hepatitis C virus. Read more.

Former Gator and NBA player Corey Brewer was in Gainesville to host his fifth annual Back 2 Back Youth Basketball Camp to benefit the Corey Brewer Fight Diabetes Fund at UF Health. “Each year, it gets better and better,” he said.

In its 2014-2015 Best Children’s Hospitals ratings, U.S. News & World Report ranked the UF Health Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology Program highest among pediatric program offerings at UF Health. The program also earned the highest-ratings among pediatric diabetes and endocrinology programs in Florida, and ranked 14th nationally.