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Sep 02, 2010
WCTV News
Why does anxiety target women more? FSU researcher awarded $1.8M to find out
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Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj was recently awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the sex differences in anxiety. Anxiety disorders afflict women twice as often as men, but estrogen might not be the reason. Testosterone, though, could be. That is one of the preliminary findings in the lab of Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj, associate professor in the College of Medicine. He recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the sex differences in anxiety.

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Sep 02, 2010
Softpedia
Anxiety as a feminine feature
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Scientists wondered why is it that women tend to be more anxious than men, and they found out that a possible cause might be the level of testosterone. Florida State University researcher and associate professor in the College of Medicine, Mohamed Kabbaj, was recently awarded a five-year $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, to carry out a research on sex differences in anxiety.

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Sep 01, 2010
Florida State University College of Medicine
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PRESS RELEASE Anxiety disorders afflict women twice as often as men, but estrogen might not be the reason. Testosterone, though, could be. 
That is one of the preliminary findings in the lab of Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj, associate professor in the College of Medicine. He recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the sex differences in anxiety. His research team also is working to identify the role of a gene called zif268.

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Aug 23, 2010
The-Dispatch.com
Stroke Center launches teleneurology program
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Thomasville Medical Center's Stroke Center has added a new tool in responding to emergency stroke and critical neurology care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, as part of the new teleneurology medicine program with Forsyth Stroke & Neurosciences Center and the Novant Neurosciences Network Solution. The new program will link Thomasville Medical Center and Specialists On Call (SOC), a Joint Commission-accredited organization of board-certified, specialty trained, community and university neurologists. SOC neurologists have a minimum of 10 years in clinical practice and include nationally recognized physicians affiliated with departments of neurology at world-class medical centers, including The Florida State University College of Medicine.

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Aug 20, 2010
Florida State University College of Medicine
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Watching 120 students put on coats might not sound like a memorable Friday night. But if those are new medical students slipping into physician’s white coats, and if the audience is filled with the people who love them, then suddenly it’s an unbeatable event. It’s called the White Coat Ceremony, and the College of Medicine’s Class of 2014 got to experience it August 20th. White Coat Ceremony Speeches: John P. Fogarty, M.D., Dean, The Florida State University College of Medicine [pdf] Robert Watson, M.D., Executive Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs [pdf] Curtis C. Stine, M.D., Associate Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health Director of Clinical Programs [pdf] Komal R. D'Souza, Class of 2011 [pdf]    

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Aug 18, 2010
Orlando Sentinel
New Voices: 'This is Africa' indeed, now how can we help?
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Commentary by Shawn Shah, 23, student at the Florida State University College of Medicine. He is Medical Student Council president. “I spent almost two weeks in Ghana this past July, alongside nine other medical students from Florida State University and a team of physicians from the medical outreach organization Hearts Afire. We were able to provide free medical care to more than 2,000 Ghanaians…”

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Aug 18, 2010
WCTV News
First-year medical students to be recognized at White Coat Ceremony
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First-year students at The Florida State University College of Medicine will receive the white coats symbolic of their unofficial entry into the field of medicine during a ceremony Friday evening.

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Aug 13, 2010
Tallahassee Democrat
Our opinion: TMH and FSU residency program is so welcome
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This week, TMH and the Florida State University College of Medicine announced that it will start a residency program in internal medicine, and this is great news for not only our community, but also the state. As we've pointed out before, in-state residencies are too limited given the increasing number of students graduating from Florida's medical schools.

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Aug 12, 2010
Tallahassee Democrat
FSU, TMH unveil new residency program
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Florida State University's College of Medicine and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare announced Wednesday that they are planning to start a new residency program in internal medicine. It will be the second residency program based at TMH — it already has a family medicine program — and the first sponsored by FSU's 10-year-old medical school.

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Aug 12, 2010
WTXL TV
TMH and FSU College of Medicine to establish internal medicine residency program
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The Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Board of Directors and the Florida State University College of Medicine announced plans to pursue a joint internal medicine residency program for the Big Bend region. The Tallahassee Memorial and Florida State University Internal Medicine Residency Program would be housed at Tallahassee Memorial's main campus and The Florida State College of Medicine would be the institutional sponsor.

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