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The National Cancer Institute award will fund a five-year study that will include 300 medical cannabis users and 300 non-medical users. Researchers hope to learn who would benefit most from cannabis.

The optional survey is meant to help the county understand residents’ health care needs. Questions range from food availability to whether the resident attends county health care events.

Researchers used DNA samples and findings to conclude the presence of two particularly concerning species in coastal waters: Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus.

A pair of UF Health therapists saw a need among their patients with long COVID to meet and talk with others with similar experiences.

The recent spike in the disease, now typically spread by armadillos, has caused some concern among experts and led to educational events like one held recently at the University of Florida.

The University of Florida's open heart surgery program, which had been in the works since before the pandemic, came to life Aug. 22, the day of surgery for George the miniature poodle.

Students involved with the organization “Dance Marathon,” a program of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals to raise money for 170 children’s hospitals, spoke to students on campus.