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UF Health Shands Children's Hospital received a $200,000 grant for childhood cancer research Wednesday.
Read More »Grant Awarded To UF Shands For Pediatric Cancer Research
Former Alabama Football Player Shares Opioid Recovery During National Recovery Month
One former Alabama football player's addiction to opiates almost cost him his family.
Read More »UF Health Debuts App To Assist In Cardiac Arrest Response
UF Health released PulsePoint, an app that notifies first responders, even if they're off duty, of a cardiac arrest that is happening within a quarter mile. The app also contains instructions on how to perform CPR for people have little to no training.
Read More »FDOH On Alert For Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Recent surveillance has the Florida Department of Health on alert for mosquito-borne viruses in Alachua County.
Read More »Unshame Supports Sexual Assault Victims
In 2014 Gretchen Casey founded the Unshame campaign in Gainesville to support rape victims around the world. Today over 1,000 people follow the Unshame group page on Facebook.
Read More »A Blood Plane: How Air Travel Solved LifeSouth’s Distribution Problems
Flying eight hours a night 363 days of the year, LifeSouth Community Blood Center’s single-engine turbo prop plane has saved lives for the last 15 years by getting critical blood supplies to patients across the Southeast faster.
Read More »New Agricultural Program Seeks To Benefit People With Disabilities
Local non-profits 10 CAN, Inc. and GROW-HUB are partnering together to benefit veterans and people with disabilities with a new agri-therapy program that will include workshops and employment opportunities. An open house will be hosted this Saturday, April 21, at GROW-HUB.
Read More »Family Fights Rare Genetic Disorders
The Meachums founded Xtraordinary Joy, a non-profit group, in 2016 "to raise funds that will promote clinical interventions, therapies and care opportunities for children afflicted by never-before-studied X chromosome deletions."
Read More »Will Alachua County Increase Tobacco Sales Age to 21?
County commissioners on Tuesday directed the county attorney's office to discuss it further.
Read More »UF Health Shands Transforming The Healthcare Environment Through The Arts
In 1990, University of Florida Shands Hospital became one of five hospitals across the country to adopt the Arts in Medicine (AIM) program. Since then, the program, one of the first of its kind, has set an example for other hospital art programs throughout the nation, providing exposure to visual, …
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