A plain language summary (PLS)—also known as a lay summary or trial results summary—is a piece of writing that briefly explains the who, what, when, where, why, and how of clinical trials… {Shared byline: By Julie
Bright light therapy, or just light therapy, can help some people change when they sleep. It can be useful for people who have an irregular sleep-wake cycle. This cycle is also called the circadian rhythm.1-3 Light
You are not imagining things. That poor night’s sleep may have made your inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) worse. Poor sleep can increase the risk of IBD relapses and flares. And IBD may also disturb your shut-eye.1
If you or your loved one is living with myasthenia gravis (MG), you may have questions about complications. One serious complication that can develop is called a myasthenic crisis. Another less-common complication that may feel similar
We often focus on how breastfeeding helps the baby, but what about the moms? Many women report that breastfeeding their babies makes them feel less stressed and anxious. Breastfeeding also benefits a mom’s heart by lowering
New research by a team of University of Florida investigators, and others, provides evidence that host immunity drives evolution of the dengue virus. The work, published Nov. 18 in Science, retrospectively analyzes two decades of dengue
A University of Florida research team is helping to build the case that coronaviruses move between animals and people at a more frequent rate than previously understood. Earlier this year, the team reported the first known
Even before the 2015 Zika pandemic subsided, researchers recognized the links between a warming world and arboviruses shifting their ranges into new areas where human populations are susceptible to infection. UF medical geographer and EPI faculty
Countries report deaths from COVID-19 in different ways, which has created challenges for researchers who seek to uncover the pandemic’s global mortality patterns. While it’s long been known that elderly people are more at risk of
our University of Florida researchers led a recent meta-analysis to uncover trends in household transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Their study published in mid-December in JAMA Network Open. First author Zachary Madewell is
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