UF Health Shands nurses spread beauty, joy, kindness, and positivity

If you look closely around town, you may find beautifully decorated rocks in unexpected places. It might be in a tree or by a potted plant. It might very well…

Prevent and Protect Yourself from HPV

This year, the University of Florida Health Cancer Center is recognizing March 4, International HPV Awareness Day, by equipping you with the information you…

Tips for a Healthier You in 2018

It’s a new year, and for many, that means new goals. Each year, millions of Americans make New Year’s resolutions that they forget or fail to keep up by…

Remembering loved ones

Bereavement program will host second annual Adult Fall Remembrance Ceremony Dec. 6 The UF Health Palliative Care team will host the second annual Adult Fall…

In All Kinds of Weather

Josh Pickering, a UF senior biochemistry major, and Brandon Burns, a fourth-year medical student in the UF College of Medicine, traveled to Puerto Rico the…

Take the Pledge: Learn About Mental Illness

This year, Oct. 1–7 is Mental Illness Awareness Week, a time to shine a light on mental illness and replace stigma with hope. Each year we fight stigma,…

A good start on a healthy heart

Heart disease by the numbers The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that heart disease causes 610,000 American deaths each year. This is about one…

Tips for Men’s Health

Every year, men all over the world suffer from preventable causes such as heart disease, prostate and other cancers, strokes, lung disease and diabetes.…

A Moment of Zen: Dan Angeles

Through the efforts of students and faculty from across the University of Florida, a patient's wish to create art was realized. Lorraine Lund, Martin McKellar,…

Why the arts matter

Art makes us happy. Art challenges us. Art helps us express our greatest triumphs and lowest points of despair. But do the arts really matter to each of us? I…

New Beginnings – Setting your intentions instead of resolutions

It’s the same song and dance every year – making a list of resolutions for the upcoming new year with the goal of checking every item off the list by the end…