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(University of South Florida Health) Combination antibiotics effectively treat Chlamydia-induced reactive arthritis -- a major step toward management, and possibly cure, of this disease, a federal multicenter clinical trial led by the University of South Florida found.

The trial, sponsored by the National Institute of Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, is reported in the May 2010 issue of the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism.

(University of South Florida Health) A sun protection program designed to persuade students to wear hats outdoors as a skin cancer prevention measure works -- at least at school.

The study, by researchers at the University of South Florida, is published online March 23, 2010, in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

(University of South Florida Health) Less than half of patients with heart failure likely to benefit from a pacemaker including the capacity for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) actually receive such an implantable device.

The national study, reported in the December 2009 issue of American Heart Journal, was led by the University of South Florida.

The Miami Herald documented the rise and fall of a prominent medical supply company.

Before its spectacular collapse, Pharmed Group was one of the great South Florida success stories, a medical supply company created by two brothers who started with nothing and built the eighth-largest Hispanic-owned business in America.

In 2003, their profit was $48 million.