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Tag Archives: Shands
FSU gives part of Dance Marathon money to Shands Hospital
By Breanna Maye on April 19th, 2013 | Last updated: April 19, 2013 at 1:51 pm
Florida State University’s Dance Marathon committee is presenting Shands Hospital with over $700,000 Friday. The money will be used to renovate the Shands neonatal intensive care unit.
In the News: lead poisoning, Social Security, morning-after pill
By Billy Kennedy on April 5th, 2013 | Last updated: April 5, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Lead poisoning estimate increases to 1 in 38 children – The high estimate of lead poisoning among children has doubled after the threshold for lead poisoning was lowered last year. Experts suggest a need for testing and prevention. Tampa Bay [...]
In the News: Mom burns daughter, insufficient sleep causes weight gain, women network to fight issue, Motor scooter accident investigated
By Leila Milgrim on March 19th, 2013 | Last updated: March 21, 2013 at 11:19 am
Hollywood mother burned daughter with knife in case of ‘honor violence,’ police say – Police say 35-year-old Sahar Thabit, born in Yemen, was arrested Friday for burning her 17-year-old daughter with a hot knife as punishment for talking to a [...]
UF Mobile Outreach Clinic offers free colonoscopies
By Kelsey Meany on March 1st, 2013 | Last updated: March 1, 2013 at 6:12 pm
The University of Florida College of Medicine’s Mobile Outreach Center will give free colonoscopies to low income and uninsured individuals. Director of Shands Cancer center gastrointestinal program Tom George talks about colonoscopies.
Center for Integrative Medicine opening at Shands
By Elizabeth Odom on February 28th, 2013 | Last updated: March 1, 2013 at 11:36 am
This summer, Shands at UF will open its first Center for Integrative Medicine. The field combines traditional and alternative therapies to provide patients different techniques in medicine.
Feb. 20, 2013: Morning News In 90
By Sarah Loftus on February 20th, 2013 | Last updated: February 20, 2013 at 11:16 am
Santa Fe College is partnering with UF to offer a new engineering program The Pentagon is warning Congress about possible mass layoffs if planned budget cuts take place in March Georgia man on death row was given a temporary stay of [...]
Gainesville man arrested in connection with baby’s death
By Sarah Brand on February 15th, 2013 | Last updated: February 18, 2013 at 4:57 pm
Detectives arrested a man on first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges Friday. According to a Marion County Sheriff’s Office press release, Jeremy James Murray, 29, was arrested on charges of the death of his 6-week-old daughter, Ember Murray.
Gainesville couple brings home quintuplets after two months in Shands neonatal intensive care unit
By Stephanie Denardo on January 15th, 2013 | Last updated: January 15, 2013 at 5:43 pm
The first quintuplets born at Shands Hospital for Children are able to go home after spending two months in the neonatal ICU. Parents Kelley and Stacy Dyal are overjoyed to bring their newborns home.
Archer shooting leaves one dead, two injured
By Charmaine Miller on January 14th, 2013 | Last updated: January 15, 2013 at 2:52 pm
Argument results in shooting leaving one man dead and two in critical condition.
Blood need in Gainesville area constant
By Dana Winter on December 18th, 2012 | Last updated: December 17, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Because of Gainesville’s hospital Shands being so prominent in health care for Florida, there is always a need for blood in the area to help with surgeries, trauma and cancer patients.
