Gun-owning seniors warrant attention, especially those with dementia, depression, and other cognition-impairing disorders, writes Marshall Kapp, director of the FSU Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine & Law, in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Eric Laywell, a professor at Florida State University's Department of Biomedical Sciences, is exploring a means to improve  patients’ quality of life, a known casualty in aggressive cancer treatments like radiation and chemotherapy.

Dr. Marshall Kapp, director of the Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law at Florida State University College of Medicine, discusses the safety of gun ownership among the elderly.

An article by Dr. Marshall Kapp, director of the Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law at Florida State University College of Medicine, discussing the safety of gun ownership among the elderly and a physician’s right to engage in firearm related inquiries.

Pediatricians have long asked parents if they have guns in the home, in an effort to reduce accidents and suicides in children and teens. That could help protect older patients too according to Marshall Kapp, a professor and director of the Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law at FSU.  But the notion of doctors asking about gun ownership is controversial.

FSU College of Medicine researcher Eric Laywell is shifting the focus from eradicating brain tumors to managing them. He has received a $430,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore a new therapeutic agent and treatment method for brain cancer. The therapeutic agent Laywell and his lab are using is EdU (pronounced E-D-U). It is typically used to label and track cells that divide, but Laywell’s team discovered that over a longer period of time, EdU has a toxic effect: The cells divide more slowly and sometimes die.

Eric Laywell, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, has received a $430,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore a new therapeutic agent and treatment method for brain cancer.

The groundwork is being set for Lee Memorial Health System to be called a teaching hospital. In April the final nails should be in place at the renovated Family Medicine Clinic, where six graduates of Florida State University Medical School will begin a residency in July 2014 in the first program of its kind in Southwest Florida.

A recent study by Angelina Sutin, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medical humanities and social sciences at FSU, and her colleagues, was published in JAMA Psychiatry. According to the report, depressive symptoms are highest in young adulthood, decrease in midlife, and then increase in later years.

Zarko Manojlovic has had a long journey from Bosnia’s civil war to a College of Medicine lab, where he now researches liver fibrosis with the aid of an NI H grant.

Paul McLeod, M.D., dean of the Florida State University College of Medicine’s Pensacola Regional Campus shares his views on the impact FSU’s College of Medicine is having on primary care in Pensacola, Florida.

The FSU College of Medicine recently conducted a study of Tallahassee’s primary care physicians to assess whether they were accepting new Medicare patients. Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D., chair of the Department of Geriatrics at the FSU College of Medicine, gives us insight about the quality and access to medical care for our growing aging population.

Researchers from several institutions including Angelina Sutin, PhD, who is an assistant professor at Florida State University College of Medicine, teamed up to estimate the trajectory of depressive symptoms across an entire adult life span. The study was published in JAMA Psychiatry.

According to research published earlier this year in the journal Psychological Science, your well-being is affected not just by your age but also by the era in which you were born. Angelina Sutin, one of the study’s authors is an assistant professor of medical humanities and social sciences at Florida State University College of Medicine.

FSU College of Medicine researcher Mohamed Kabbaj published his latest social-relationship discoveries in “Nature Neuroscience” following a comprehensive study of brain behavior and partner preference.

Dr. Charlotte Maguire known as the "Mother of the FSU Medical School" was presented a “Great Floridian” award Thursday by Governor Rick Scott. 

Elizabeth Ogunrinde, a student in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry who also does research at the medical school was awarded an Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship from the United Negro College Fund Merck Science Initiative.

Governor Rick Scott is honoring one of the state’s first female doctors, Dr. Charlotte Maguire, with a “Great Floridian” award for the significant contributions she’s made to Florida.

Dr. Charlotte Maguire was recognized Thursday as a visionary pioneer in medical education as Gov. Rick Scott gave her a prestigious "Great Floridian" award.

It has long been established by medical research that certain personality types are more attracted to illicit drugs. But now a published study conducted by Angelina Sutina, from Florida State University College of Medicine, and the United States National Institute on Ageing, suggests that it's your personality combined with your financial circumstances, which can together powerfully shape your illegal drug use.

Two Tallahassee residents — Bill Gunter and Dr. Charlotte Maguire — are among the recipients of an honor recognizing their lifetime of contributions to the state of Florida, its progress and prosperity. Maguire is regarded as the “Mother of the FSU Medical School.”

Florida Hospital announced a $2 million gift to support the Florida State University College of Medicine's education program in Orlando. The gift will establish the Florida Hospital Endowed Fund for Medical Education to help the College of Medicine support its faculty of more than 550 experienced physicians from the Orlando medical community.

Florida State University College of Medicine researcher Mohamed Kabbaj published his latest social-relationship discoveries in Nature Neuroscience following a comprehensive study of brain behavior and partner preference.

A new study authored by neuroscientist Mohamed Kabbaj and his colleagues in the biomedical sciences department of Florida State University says that monogamy in the prairie vole has an epigenetic origin.

The Florida State University College of Medicine Fort Pierce Regional Campus recently honored their fifth graduating class. These students will be pursuing careers as doctors in family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, emergency medicine, surgery, and anesthesiology.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranked Leon County eighth in health outcomes among Florida's 67 counties when measuring factors such as healthy habits, life expectancy and access to health care. Jacob VanLandingham, assistant professor at FSU's College of Medicine, is also in the article for his creation of the drug Prevacus.

Neuroscientist Mohamed Kabbaj and the Florida State University researchers, who used drugs to induce the prairie voles to choose mates, believe it is the first evidence that genetic manipulation can be used to directly control selection of sexual partners.

A new study, done by Mohamed Kabbaj, neuroscientist at the FSU College of Medicine, finds that prairie vole’s rare partnerships are cemented by chemical changes on their genes, called epigenetic changes, that result from their sexual encounters. The results, published in Nature Neuroscience today, provide the first direct evidence of the link between epigenetics and monogamous bonding in voles.

Mating normally induces prairie voles to form lifelong bonds, but neuroscientist Mohamed Kabbaj along with other researchers at the FSU College of Medicine found that they could cause the same blissful response by activating certain genes in the rodents' brains.

The mechanism behind prairie voles’ lifelong social monogamy is partly epigenetic, according to a paper published in Nature Neuroscience. One of the authors is Mohamed Kabbaj, a neuroscientist at Florida State University.

The FSU College of Medicine Rural Education Opportunity Program sends first-year FSU Med students to get a first-hand look of the need of doctors in the rural sites.

First-year Florida State University College of Medicine students will visit rural communities today as part of the school’s Rural Education Opportunity Program (REOP).

A new study done by Angelina Sutin at FSU’s College of Medicine and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health found that people become more satisfied with life as they age. Experts say findings could have implications for today's younger generation who are born into recession and high unemployment.

The new family medicine residency program run by FSU and Fort Myers-based Lee Memorial Health System has received full accreditation for the maximum initial interval of three years.The Family Medicine Residency Program is intended to help combat a growing shortage of primary care physicians.

Four innovative research projects have been awarded a total of $158,000 by the Florida State University Research Foundation to help move their discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace. Amy Wetherby, a distinguished research professor of clinical sciences in the College of Medicine, has received $50,000 for early detection and treatment of autism.

Dr. Angelina Sutin, an assistant professor at Florida State University’s College of Medicine, and her colleagues with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), recently examined data from a decade-long survey of Baltimore residents and found people from the survey who showed at least a 10 percent increase in weight also showed an increase in impulsiveness and a greater tendency to give into temptation.

FSU College of Medicine students hosted “Pedaling for Parkinson’s” at Sweat Therapy Fitness in February to raise funds for the Tallahassee Memorial NeuroScience Center for Parkinson’s Research in memory of Samuel Torres.

A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, looks at the relationship between fluctuations in body weight and personality traits. FSU College of Medicine researcher Angelina Sutin, Ph.D. and her colleagues at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discovered people who gain weight are more likely to give in to temptations but also are more thoughtful about their actions.

Josh Hayes, a 2005 graduate of Pedro Menendez High School, will graduate from the Florida State University College of Medicine Saturday in Tallahassee.

People who gain weight are more likely to give in to temptations but also are more thoughtful about their actions, according to a new study done by Angelina Sutin at FSU’s College of Medicine and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health.

A study conducted by sociologists at the University of Michigan found that people who are ill and do not seek treatment because of the cost are more likely to have credit card debt than any other form of debt. Marshall B. Kapp, director of FSU’s Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law, is quoted in the article and talk about the Affordable Care Act.

People who gain weight are more likely to give in to temptations but also are more thoughtful about their actions, according to a new study done by Angelina Sutin at FSU’s College of Medicine and colleagues at the National Institutes of Healthand.

How much weight you gain can influence your decision-making process according to a new study done by Angelina Sutin, Ph.D., study author and assistant professor at Florida State University College of Medicine.

People are more likely to give into temptations and become more thoughtful after gaining a few kilos, a new study has found. Angelina Sutin of the Florida State University College of Medicine and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) examined data to understand the link between body weight and personality changes.

Changes in personality traits can be attributed to a gain in weight says one Florida State University professor.  Angelina Sutin, an assistant professor in the Florida State University College of Medicine, conducted research on 1,900 people of all ages and socioeconomic levels to understand how fluctuations in body weight might relate to personality changes.

A new study by psychological scientist, Angelina Sutin, of the FSU College of Medicine and her colleagues at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) finds that after  gaining a significant amount of weight, people may grow more self-conscious about their choices, while at the same time being weaker in the face of temptation.

To understand how fluctuations in body weight might relate to personality changes, psychological scientist Angelina Sutin of the Florida State University College of Medicine and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) examined data from two large-scale longitudinal studies of Baltimore residents.

A new study has found that significant changes in weight are associated with changes in our core personality traits. To understand how fluctuations in body weight might relate to personality changes, psychological scientist Angelina Sutin of the Florida State University College of Medicine and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) examined data from two large-scale longitudinal studies of Baltimore residents.

Researchers from the Florida State University College of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health found that people who have experienced weight gain were more likely to be both impulsive and deliberate in their actions.

Last year faculty researchers generated over $1.6 billion in research grants and contracts from government and private entities. The vast majority of these funds cycled through the Florida economy in the form of salaries and locally purchased goods and services.