Weight discrimination may increase risk for obesity rather than motivating individuals to lose weight, according to research published July 24 in the open access journal PLoS ONE by Angelina Sutin and Antonio Terracciano from the Florida State University College of Medicine.

Social problems can be as serious as health problems and can make our physical problems even worse, according to provocative new research. Two researchers from FSU's College of Medicine published their study, “Perceived Weight Discrimination and Obesity” in PLOS ONE.

Weight discrimination may increase risk for obesity rather than motivating individuals to lose weight, according to research published July 24 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Angelina Sutin and Antonio Terracciano from the Florida State University College of Medicine.

Researchers from the Florida State University College of Medicine used the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study in 2006 and 2010 to see if weight discrimination could lead to overeating.

The AIGISRx N Antibacterial Envelope from TYRX, Inc., designed to help reduce infections associated with implantable medical devices, is now FDA-cleared for use with vagus nerve stimulators used to treat seizure disorders and depression. Christopher Rumana, MD, FACS, Clinical Assistant Professor at FSU’s College of Medicine, and Chairman of Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Division of Neurosurgery, is quoted in the article.

A profile of Dr. Cody VanLandingham who received his M.D. from the FSU College of Medicine.

The demographics of an aging population present a pressing need for specialists in Geriatrics, yet FSU’s College of Medicine is the only one of Florida's six public medical schools requires academic and clinical training in geriatrics in all four years of medical school.

FSU's College of Medicine is the only public medical school in Florida with an emphasis on geriatrics, which requires academic and clinical geriatric training in all four years of medical school. Ken Brummel-Smith, director of Florida State University's geriatric department, is quoted in this article.

Jonathan S. Appelbaum, M.D., has been named the Laurie L. Dozier Jr., M.D., Education Director and Professor of Internal Medicine at the FSU College of Medicine.

Lee Memorial Hospital is constructing a Family Medical Center large enough to accommodate incoming residents and will hopefully keep medical students from leaving Florida when they graduate and become medical residents.

After 10 years in development, a new drug to help people with concussions is about to undergo testing. The drug, which was developed at FSU’s College of Medicine by Dr. Jake VanLandingham, may stop the concussion from turning into a more serious health issue.

Marshall Kapp, director of the Florida State University Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law, states that doctors have a professional and legal obligation to ask about guns in the homes of seniors suffering from depression or mental impairment.

The FSU College of Medicine Pediatrics Interest Group participated in the Dreams Come True’s Kids Helping Kids program for the 2012-13 school year.

Lea Parsley, medical director for the Clinical Genetics Center at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and a professor at the FSU College of Medicine, is featured in this article about the great potential that genetic testing has and how it can impact future healthcare decisions.

Florida State University's new summer institute in Immokalee is helping students find their passion for medicine and for helping their community. The students got an inside look at what it means to be a doctor and a medical student.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.