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The Peters’s rock agama is reducing the density of Florida’s brown anole lizard population. Mosquitoes love to bite the anoles, but with fewer around, researchers want to know how this will affect humans.

Attorneys for a grad student went to the Supreme Court after a divided panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal rejected a potential class-action lawsuit stemming from fees that students paid for services.

A bill that would have further regulated kratom failed to pass in the Legislature as its use continues to grow. Meanwhile, UF continues to lead much of the research surrounding the herb.

The student seeks refunds of fees for transportation, health care and athletics services that were not provided by the University of Florida because of the campus closure during pandemic in 2020.

The court issued an order scheduling the arguments for June 5 in the case, which is one of a series of similar class-action lawsuits filed against colleges in the state.

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.

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.

In a torrent of lawsuits in Alachua County, patients accuse device maker Exactech of hiding knee and hip implant defects for years. The company denies the allegations.