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College of Medicine professors Angelina Sutin and Antonio Terracciano contributed to research on the potential links between IQ, health and aging. The research was published in the academic journal Intelligence this month and featured in a British Psychological Society Research Digest article.

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The members of the Class of 2022 were officially welcomed into their chosen profession during the Florida State University College of Medicine’s White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 10.

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Alumna Lexie Mannix (M.D., '14) published a post on her blog, sheMD, about her journey to medicine and how perseverance and adaptation led her to the FSU College of Medicine.

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Eight first-year family medicine residents started seeing patients as part of the Florida State University College of Medicine Family Medicine Residency Program at Lee Health July 30. Based at Lee Memorial Hospital, the program was created to abate a national shortage of primary care physicians.

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FSU College of Medicine professor Judy Muller-Delp conducted research that suggests that static muscle stretching performed regularly can increase blood flow to muscles in the lower leg, helping individuals who struggle to walk due to pain or lack of mobility.

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Joseph Gabriel, associate professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, wrote an article for The Conversation about the history of opiate addiction, pain and race in the US in mid-June. The article was also published in The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune and later ran in the San Diego Union-Tribune in early September.

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FSU College of Medicine Professor James Olcese previously discovered that nightly release of melatonin is a cause of contractions in pregnant women. In effort to reduce preterm contractions in women, he developed a light-emitting sleep mask to inhibit the release of melatonin. The technology is marketed and developed by his organization KynderMed and is beginning a clinical study at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida, and Tampa General Hospital.

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With Hurricane Florence heading toward the East Coast, AAMC News reviewed lessons learned by medical schools and teaching hospitals during 2017's hurricane season. FSU College of Medicine Dean John P. Fogarty talks about making resources available to med students, staff, and more in the face of a storm.

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College of Medicine Professor Rob Glueckauf and his team have devoted the last four years to ACTS2, the African-American Alzheimer's Caregiver Training and Support Project 2. The project has brought relief to nearly 100 distressed African-Americans providing care for a loved one with dementia, and it is expanding its outreach in Western Panhandle counties thanks to a $118,000 grant.