Gainesville

A group intends to offer veterans free gym memberships on an application basis through donations from the public.

He ended up at a VA Medical Center in Gainesville seeking a voluntary stay for mental health treatment. Instead, he was involuntarily held under Florida’s Baker Act. Six months later, he killed himself.

Billie Bob Sykes joined the gym in 2000, when she was 75, because she felt she needed to exercise and be around people. As one fitness instructor notes: “She loves everybody; everybody loves her.”

The UF Health facility in one of Gainesville's poorest neighborhoods opens after a construction process funded by city, county and federal dollars. More than 12,000 patients are expected annually.

Without the injectable, patients are always hungry, causing blood sugar and behavioral problems, and other complications. The problem has consumed UF Health pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Jennifer Miller.

Mothers across Gainesville navigate the emotions, pains and questions of breastfeeding in the months leading up to and after pregnancy.

HCA North Florida Regional removed a vice president and fired others nearly six weeks after nonemergency surgeries abruptly halted with concerns about sterilized operating room equipment.

Concerns about sterilizing equipment has led to suspending nonemergency surgeries for one week longer as the hospital grapples with issues that could lead to serious infections, surgeons say.

The HCA Florida facility in Gainesville is one of the state’s largest hospitals. The suspension is for at least four days. The hospital says the move was proactive and described it only as an unspecified “operational matter.”

Thousands of medical devices are sold, and even implanted, with no safety tests.