GAINESVILLE, Fla.—It’s one of medicine’s greatest ironies: The patients who most need a certain treatment may be too ill to handle it. Now University of Florida and Duke University researchers say one group of people long considered too sick for a lung transplant may be able to undergo the procedure after all.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumer confidence in Florida fell last month as concerns over the results of the presidential election widened to include fears about personal finances, University of Florida economists said today.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rising nitrate levels — most likely from farms and homes in the region — along North Florida’s famous Suwannee River are prompting concerns about the nutrient’s effect on the environment and public health.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — At a time when many people view doctors as distant and unsympathetic, a new University of Florida program requires emergency department residents to walk a mile in their patients’ shoes.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A network of steel pipes and tanks tucked behind a small building at the University of Florida could lead to a new method of creating two seemingly unrelated products — electricity and refrigeration — by tapping into the power of the sun.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Key participants in Florida’s protracted 2000 Presidential election will participate in a University of Florida conference Feb. 26, examining legal, political and media aspects of the contested balloting.
OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — In response to a steady decline in the water quality of Lake Okeechobee, the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences has formed a partnership with state and federal agencies to save the state’s largest lake.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Despite fears that the United States is unprepared to care for its rapidly growing elderly population, the system of assisted-living facilities actually place it on firm ground, especially when compared with its Canadian neighbors, a University of Florida researcher has found.
That may be an important consideration for millions of baby boomers in […]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—When it comes to men, women and emotion, pet theories abound on whether one sex is more emotional or inhibited than the other.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Despite the destruction of more than a half-million trees in the past year, the Florida Citrus Canker Eradication Program is viewed as necessary by nearly three-fourths of respondents in a new University of Florida survey.