March 27, 2012

UF names Dr. Daniel Meldrum the new chief of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery

Daniel R. Meldrum, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.H.A., joined the University of Florida department of surgery’s division of thoracic and cardiovascular surger...


March 21, 2012

UF nursing professor receives award for research in minority health

University of Florida College of Nursing Assistant Professor Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini, Ph.D., R.N., was selected to receive the Southern Nursing Resea...

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March 19, 2012

Video March Madness: College of Medicine grads ‘match’ with residencies

  Soon-to-be graduates of the UF College of Medicine learned where they matched for their residency training during the college¹s annual Match D...


March 16, 2012

UF Small Animal Hospital to offer free eye exams to service animals May 25

The University of Florida’s Small Animal Hospital will offer free screening eye and heart examinations to service animals May 25 as a part of the fo...

the POST

Nurses without borders
April 2012

Think you know everything nurses (and nurses-to-be) do? Think again. This month, The POST takes you inside the world of nursing and introduces you to seven very different nurses and their varied roles in caring for patients.

Health in a Heartbeat

Audio Tattoo inks are some of the finer things in life
May 16, 2012

 

Podcast: Play in new window | Download You might think that skull and crossbones tattoo on your arm or that red rose perched discreetly on your derriere are made with liquid ink. But it’s possible the ink is instead a pigment made up of fine crystalline solids. Researchers publishing in the British Journal of Dermatology [...]

Animal Airwaves

Audio Humpback comeback
May 1, 2012

 

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Commercial whaling has driven species such as the right and gray whales to the brink of extinction. But for other whales, decades of protection are bearing fruit. The number of humpback whales in the north Pacific has risen to more than 20,000, up from 8,000 in the 1990s [...]