More teenagers start drinking and smoking cigarettes and marijuana in June and July than in any other months, U.S. health officials say. Florida’s 89.1 WUFT-FM’s Stephanie Denardo reports on what factors lead to alcohol and drug use in teens over the summer, and what parents can do to prevent it.
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That’s the question the People’s Scientific Conference is going to begin trying to answer this weekend as discussions about how to eliminate health disparities and improve the community’s health get underway at the University of Florida.
World Blood Donor Day comes with another reason for celebration this year at LifeSouth Community Blood Centers Friday, thanks to an approval for a cord blood manufacturing license from the FDA. LifeSouth is the first blood bank in Florida and fifth in the nation to earn the license.
The Food and Drug Administration will make the most widely known morning-after pill available on drugstore shelves to women ages 15 and older.
Banyan Biomarkers is working with two UF teams of researchers to find a better way to detect concussions.
Alexa Carlin founded Hello Perfect, a blog devoted to redefining society’s definition of perfection, with a friend in 2011.
