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Dr. Matthew Gurka to Serve on NIH Study Section
Matthew Gurka, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) at UF and associate director of UF’s Institute for Child Health Policy (ICHP), was selected to serve as a member of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) Kidney, Nutrition, Obesity and…
Type 1 Diabetes Patients Retain Some Ability to Produce Insulin, UF Health Researchers Find
As an autoimmune disease, Type 1 diabetes has long been thought to result from a complete immune system killing of the insulin-producing beta cells within the pancreas. Now, University of Florida Health researchers have made a striking discovery: some of the pancreas’ ability to produce insulin may remain for decades…
Common Antibiotics Not Associated With Increased Risk of Type 1 Diabetes or Celiac Disease in Children
Common antibiotics do not increase the risk of Type 1 diabetes or celiac disease among children who have a genetic susceptibility for developing those diseases, multinational researchers, including those from the University of Florida, have found. The TEDDY Study Group, which includes University of Florida researcher Eric Triplett,…
