Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month – Go Blue!
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Day – March 4, 2016 March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Dress in blue all month with UF Health to help raise awareness for colon cancer and…
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UF Health researcher gets $15.48 million for landmark study on effectiveness of hepatitis C drugs
A research team at University of Florida Health has been approved for a $15.48 million research funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, to study the effectiveness of three medications used to treat hepatitis C. The five-year, randomized clinical trial will be led at UF…
Dr. David Nelson Talks About Hepatitis C on WCJB-TV20
Last week, the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition’s Dr. David Nelson spoke with WCJB-TV20’s Chris Gilmore about recent treatment advances and screening recommendations for Hepatitis C. “This year has seen a real transformation in opportunities,” Dr. Nelson explains, “It use to be we would give people injections of chemotherapy…
Dr. James McGuigan wins the DOM Senior Mentor of the Year Award 2012
Congratulations, Jim!…
Dr. James E. McGuigan honored at the 6th UF Annual GI/Liver Meeting
Dr. James E. McGuigan was recently recognized during the 6th UF Annual GI/Liver Meeting for more than 40 years of service. He has been an outstanding leader, researcher and physician for the University of Florida Department of Medicine.
UF hepatologists test chemotherapy pill in patients with advanced liver cancer, cirrhosis
Hepatologists at the University of Florida have begun a new clinical trial in search of a better way to treat patients who have advanced, inoperable primary liver cancer but have trouble tolerating standard doses of the only drug available to help them. Funded through a $650,000 grant from Bayer…
