On June 8, UCF Lake Nona Medical Center became the first hospital in Central Florida to provide an incisionless brain surgery to treat essential tremor (ET) and tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease that is unable to be controlled with medication. ET is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by tremor, often in the hands, trunk, voice, legs or arms. ET severely … [Read more...]
How Food Can Be ‘Thy Medicine’
UCF medical student Emily Freisen carefully measures out a teaspoon of mustard that will go into salad dressing. At other workstations, her classmates are chopping carrots and peeling onions. The group of 13 students has traded in their white coats for chef’s whites as part of a six-week collaborative culinary medicine course run by UCF’s College of Medicine and the Rosen … [Read more...]