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 »Medical Ambulances In The Sky, Saving Lives One Flight At A Time
While Gainesville locals lie asleep, aircraft from University Air Center may be flying in the night sky over their house on the way to save a life. Timing is crucial whenever a human organ becomes available following a recent death. And regardless of the hour, flights transport medical teams affiliated with University …
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 »Website Designed To Help Transgender People In Florida Change Name And Gender Marker
A new website that launched in March called Florida Name Change is designed to make the name and gender marker change process much easier for the thousands of transgender people living in the state of Florida.
Read More »Team-Based Science To Change The Way Neurobiology Research Is Done In Florida
Brain researchers affiliated with the University of Florida are leading the way in the practice of team-based sciences, joining forces to share knowledge and collaborate around an important area of medicine.
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 »Women’s Group Pushes For Morning After Pill Vending Machines On UF Campus
Jennifer Boylan’s life revolves around activism, and now Zachariah Chou has joined in her enthusiasm. Their unlikely partnership came about over a petition for a Morning After Pill vending machine. “We’re not asking for it for free. We’re asking for it for $10, which you’re already selling it at,” said …
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 »Concerns Of Health Risks From Advanced Meter Radio Waves Debunked
Despite health concerns raised by some residents of Melrose, Florida over new wireless-emitting smart meter, experts assure they are safe and a benefit because they eliminates the need for utility employees to drive to residential homes and businesses to record electricity use.
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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