Health & Medicine

College of Medicine names new chair of geriatrics

Published: March 3, 2015 | 9:39 am

A dozen years after becoming one of only four U.S. medical schools to devote an entire academic department to geriatric […]

FSU-Russian research team explores vision complications for astronauts

Published: February 11, 2015 | 11:32 am

An international partnership between Florida State University and a team from the Russian Academy of Sciences has found that space […]

Image is everything: Teen misperceptions pose obesity risk

Published: February 5, 2015 | 10:40 am

Teenagers who mistakenly perceive themselves as being overweight are more likely to become obese in young adulthood, according to a […]

Renowned psychologist receives prestigious international research award

Published: February 5, 2015 | 10:22 am

A Florida State researcher who is one of the world’s eminent social psychologists has received a major international award from […]

Future physicians of rural and underserved Floridians receive CPR certification

Published: January 23, 2015 | 4:43 pm

Nearly 150 eighth- through 10th-graders from five counties across Florida earned their CPR certification Jan. 23 as participants in the […]

The Good Life: How to be and stay happy

Published: January 12, 2015 | 10:56 am

What is the key to happiness? A great job? A doting spouse? Maybe getting to take a blissful vacation once […]

Charlotte Maguire, pioneering pediatrician and visionary philanthropist, dies at 96

Published: December 7, 2014 | 11:17 am

Charlotte Edwards Maguire, who went from long-distance operator to pioneering female pediatrician to citrus-grove manager to government official to key […]

Professor receives prestigious Institute of Medicine fellowship

Published: December 5, 2014 | 12:27 pm

Kendall Campbell, associate professor of family medicine and rural health in the Florida State University College of Medicine, is one […]

Computer-based approach to treating anxiety may reduce suicide risk

Published: December 3, 2014 | 1:44 pm

A group of psychology researchers at Florida State University have developed a simple computer-based approach to treating anxiety sensitivity, something […]