USF CAMPUS - Alicia D.H. Monroe will be the next vice dean for educational affairs at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, according to a release from the university. Monroe, associate dean for diversity at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, joins USF on July 1. ...more

May 19, 2008

To John Gibson, some doctors are "legal drug dealers." The 30-year-old Tampa man said he is recovering from addiction to prescription painkillers he started taking after an all-terrain vehicle accident and a work-related injury when he was employed at a sawmill. ...more

December 4, 2007

TAMPA – To John Gibson, some doctors are "legal drug dealers." The 30-year-old Tampa man said he is recovering from addiction to prescription painkillers he started taking after an all-terrain vehicle accident and a work-related injury when he was employed at a sawmill. ...more

December 3, 2007

I occasionally ponder which organ will fail first, and it's nice to know I could catch a break: Fate might spin its bony finger and land on — lucky me — my gallbladder! Not that doctors are suggesting people have it cut out with their next tummy tuck, but it seems the gallbladder, like the hand crank on a Ford, once served a more purposeful existence than it does now. ...more

September 27, 2007

The competition was keen, including the scientist who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics for confirming the big-bang theory. ...more

September 20, 2007