Hospitalized babies and children often rely on medical tubes and cords that are essential to their care, yet difficult for small hands to ignore. To keep young…
Astrid Weller’s dad holds her up to a window at the University of Florida Health Congenital Heart Center so she can press her hands to the warm glass and peer…
September 3, 2025
Maternity services to transition to neighboring hospitals
UF Health Leesburg Hospital, +1 more
With the stress and chaos that can come with a stay in a neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, there is a team of nurses that families quickly cherish — the…
Shiniqua Aschenback woke up the morning after her 43rd birthday and immediately knew something was wrong. Both of her legs had inexplicably swollen to twice…
You see the “Chopper Doc” and hear the helicopters and ambulance sirens coming and going, but what does a day in the life of UF Health ShandsCair really look…
December 5, 2024
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The life of billions of people inhabiting Earth is owed to a temporary organ that supported and nourished them in a mother’s womb. The…
College of Medicine, +2 more
September is Sepsis Awareness Month, which was established in 2011 to shine a light on this critical illness. Sepsis is a life-threatening illness or…
At around 3 a.m., Kristin Zupancic, marketing coordinator in UF Health Communications, woke up to her dog acting strange. Hank, a senior Yellow Labrador who…
October 26, 2023
Shakira Henderson, Ph.D., D.N.P., M.S., M.P.H., EMBA, has been named dean of the University of Florida College of Nursing — the sixth in the college’s 67-year…
College of Nursing, +2 more
