Podcast: Play in new window | Download It’s happening again: First the sensitive skin around your mouth swells up like an angry zit. The affected area morphs into a blister then breaks, turning into a crusty sore. You’re left to deal with an embarrassing, ugly blemish glaring front and center on your face for a [...]

ShandsCair, the air medical and critical care transport system for Shands at the University of Florida, is expanding its horizons and flight capabilities by setting up a second base in Marion County, complete with a second helicopter. On Feb. 15, ShandsCair will launch “ShandsCair 2” in Marion County, just south of Ocala. The ShandsCair 2 [...]

Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels can keep heart disease, heart attack and stroke away. And a commonly used vitamin could help by increasing production of “good” cholesterol in the body, researchers at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville have found. The findings were published recently in the journal Metabolism, Clinical and Experimental. Physicians have long [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Some of our best memories of elementary school, beside recess, of course, are the class parties. First there’s Halloween, hallowed with cartloads of candy. Then come the winter holidays, packed with pies, cookies and baked goods. You can’t have Valentine’s Day without chocolate, and then there are birthdays [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Preteens face scores of stumbling blocks these days as they navigate school, crushes and good old-fashioned self-consciousness. And then there’s bullying. But gone are the days of idle gossip and getting slammed into lockers; bullying has become a beast in recent years as the Internet gives gossip fuel [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Most people have one time or another experienced the emotional stress of a broken heart after losing a loved one through divorce, breakup or even death. But the emotional pain of a broken heart can also lead to real heart problems. Doctors call this rare condition Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Parents, you soon could be telling your kids to eat their super veggies. British scientists recently unveiled a new breed of broccoli with super nutritional powers. These turbo-charged veggies have been on sale as Beneforte in select stores in California and Texas for the last year. Soon, they [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Wearing braces on your teeth has almost become a rite of passage for children in America. It’s very hard these days to escape the requisite two or three years with a mouth full of metal. So what is to blame for this influx of crooked teeth? New research [...]

Cancer that has spread from the site of an original tumor to other places in the body is often viewed as a death sentence. But if there are just a few of those secondary tumors, called metastases, some patients have a good chance of survival if treated with a type of radiation that precisely targets [...]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Birth control pills: They’re not just for birth control any more. At least according to a new study, which found that more than one-point-five million women in the United States take birth control pills for reasons other than preventing pregnancy. In fact, more than 726,000 women who take [...]