Health and Wellness

The goal of a vaccine is to give you protection against a pathogen – without you having to suffer through the illness. With so much talk about developing a COVID-19 vaccine, we turn this week to Dr. Kai McKinstry, a virus expert at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, who is working to create a…

Viruses have been around for nearly 500 million years. So what happened to make the COVID-19 virus into a pandemic? How did this virus appear out of nowhere and then spread to millions across the globe? For answers, we turn this week to Griffith Parks, associate dean for research at the College of Medicine, director…

A year ago, no one would have considered a birthday party or singing in a church choir a dangerous, potentially deadly activity. But COVID-19 shows us that such events can be “super spreaders” that allow one or two sick people to infect dozens. In this week’s health tip, College of Medicine students Neel Shah and…

As a new school year begins for many of our children, parents are worried about navigating the new normal of life with COVID-19. Dr. Colleen Moran-Bano, a pediatrician at the UCF College of Medicine who leads pediatric training for M.D. students and is a parent herself, offers these tips.  As pediatricians, we know that most…

As we return to campus, we’re going to find colleagues who have become ill and recovered from COVID-19 and others who have lost a loved one to the virus. As a community, we take care of each other, especially during challenging times. So what is the best way to offer support to colleagues and friends…

As coronavirus infections increase across our community, so does the chance that any one of us may be caring for someone with the virus. That is especially concerning to parents who could be sending their youngsters back to school in the fall. As a caregiver – to an adult or child patient – there are…