

UF Health expanding access to COVID-19 vaccinations
By Bill Levesque • Jan 5, 2021 • Featured Articles, Lead StoryWith the novel coronavirus continuing its unabated march through communities local and global, University of Florida Health is moving into the next stage of its COVID-19 vaccination program this week as it begins to offer...

UF Health researcher answers top questions about the new COVID-19 vaccines
By Bill Levesque • Jan 4, 2021 • Lead StoryThe leading COVID-19 vaccines aren’t anything like the polio vaccination your grandparents received — or even the flu shot you got this fall. A look under the hood unveils a remarkable advancement in medicine. The COVID-19...

Moderna vaccinations begin for health care employees at UF Health in Gainesville
By Bill Levesque a... • Dec 23, 2020 • Lead StoryUniversity of Florida Health faculty and staff today began receiving a vaccine developed by Moderna, the second of two authorized vaccines upon which rest the hopes of ending a relentless pandemic. At 10 a.m., David R. Nelson, M...

UF Health in Gainesville begins vaccinating high-risk health care employees against COVID-19
By Bill Levesque, ... • Dec 16, 2020 • Lead StoryAfter months of anguish and anticipation, after the long days and the longer nights of a pandemic that has stressed communities across Florida, the nation and the world, Gainesville took the first step today toward an eventual...

UF Health among first in world to use novel diaphragmatic pacer to help COVID-19 patients breathe
By Dorothy Hagmajer • Dec 15, 2020 • Featured Articles, Lead StoryAs the world’s focus shifts from COVID-19 vaccine creation to distribution, researchers and clinicians continue to search for ways to alleviate the suffering of patients and the demands on crowded hospitals. Now, after Emergency...
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Vitamin D deficiency tied to increased COVID-19 risk, unique UF data study finds
By Kim Rose • College of Public Health and Health Professions, UF College of Dentistry, University of Florida, UF Health, College of Medicine, Clinical and Translational Science Institute • Jan 20, 2021 -
UF study sheds light on the roles of children and asymptomatic infections in COVID-19 household transmission
By Jill Pease • College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida • Jan 19, 2021 -
University of Florida Health researchers win $75 million grant to help develop new antibiotic
By Doug Bennett • University of Florida, UF Health, College of Medicine • Jan 14, 2021 -
UF Nursing opens leading-edge simulation and learning lab
By Anna Hoffman • UF College of Nursing, University of Florida, UF Health • Jan 13, 2021
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At least 20 cases of coronavirus variant in Florida, CDC says
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Health Beat: Protecting kids from asthma
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Managing delirium in the pediatric patient
My American Nurse official Journal of the American Nurses • Jan 13, 2021 -
Research finds COVID may worsen symptoms of those with Tourette syndrome
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With 1st COVID-19 vaccinations at UF Health in Villages and Leesburg, ‘science basically wins today’
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Florida has vaccinated 40,037 people for the coronavirus
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Debunking common COVID-19 vaccine myths with UF Health’s chief epidemiologist
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Trust the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. They are safe — and they work.
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COVID-19 testing: We've come a long way
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UF Health in Gainesville begins vaccinating high-risk health care employees against COVID-19
The Business Report of North Central Florida • Dec 21, 2020
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Health In A Heartbeat
Type of air pollution, not just amount, may determine health threat
Jan 20, 2021
When it comes to measuring the health threat of air pollution, it’s not just about the amount of bad air we breathe. New research finds the chemical composition of what we inhale also plays a big role in assessing the overall threat. Traditionally, most measures of air pollution have focused on the...
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Horse and pills: helping the medicine go down
Jan 19, 2021
When we ask our horses to take oral medications, they often have other ideas. But don’t despair. There are several ways to make the medicine go down. Try hiding small pills in a piece of apple or carrot offered as a treat. Preceding and following that with unmedicated chunks can help hide the taste...
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Cancer affects large animals, too
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A diet designed to block feline allergies
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Debunking Common Pet Myths: Sorting Fact from Fiction
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