Vehicle Heat Safety for Children
Unfortunately, child deaths and heat-related illness, like dying from heatstroke in a hot car, increase during summer. Since 1998, more than 950 children have…
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Ready, Set, Run: Strategies for Running Injury Prevention
Running is a popular and effective form of exercise, but without proper precautions, it can lead to injuries, including strains, sprains and stress fractures.…
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Common Pregnancy Symptoms to Expect During Each Trimester
“Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.” — Carrie Fisher…
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Steps for Preventing Colorectal Cancer in Young Adults
Colorectal cancer is occurring far more often in those under 50 — a trend that’s held for the last decade. With regular screenings, however, the cancer is both…
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American Heart Month: Fall in love with cardiovascular health
Let’s talk about hearts — the love that fills them and the diseases that damage them. You should be committed to a long-term relationship with your heart…
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Understanding and Managing COPD
This November, UF Health recognizes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, to spread awareness about the importance of understanding this disease.…
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Best-Case Scenario
When a brainstem tumor almost took Mycah’s life, her UF Health pediatric neurosurgeon prepared a plan to save her. Just weeks before her eighth birthday in…
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Some Things Can Wait. Colorectal Cancer Doesn’t.
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the U.S., and second-leading cause of death, taking 50,000 lives each year. However, thanks to years of…
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Ahoy, Scurvy Awareness!
Today is Talk like a Pirate Day, which is a great opportunity to shed some light on scurvy - a disease that is often associated with those who sail the seven…
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Weighty Choices: Selecting Optimal G-CSF Doses for Stem Cell Mobilization to Optimize Yield
Nosha Farhadfar, MD, and colleagues at University of Florida Health Cancer Center led a study conducted by an international team of researchers using data…
