UF Health pharmacist Clayton Johnston administers a second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Dr. Nicole Iovine, chief epidemiology officer for the UF Health Shands Hospital system.

UF Health expanding access to COVID-19 vaccinations

By Bill Levesque • Jan 5, 2021 • Featured Articles, Lead Story

With the novel coronavirus continuing its unabated march through communities local and global, University of Florida Health is moving into the next stage of its COVID-19 vaccination program this week as it begins to offer...

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UF Health researcher answers top questions about the new COVID-19 vaccines

By Bill Levesque • Jan 4, 2021 • Lead Story

The leading COVID-19 vaccines aren’t anything like the polio vaccination your grandparents received — or even the flu shot you got this fall. A look under the hood unveils a remarkable advancement in medicine. The COVID-19...

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Emily Benitez lifts the sleeve of her outfit to receive an injection of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. A woman wearing a white medical coat provides the injection. Both are wearing masks.

Moderna vaccinations begin for health care employees at UF Health in Gainesville

By Bill Levesque a... • Dec 23, 2020 • Lead Story

University of Florida Health faculty and staff today began receiving a vaccine developed by Moderna, the second of two authorized vaccines upon which rest the hopes of ending a relentless pandemic. At 10 a.m., David R. Nelson, M...

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UF Health in Gainesville begins vaccinating high-risk health care employees against COVID-19

By Bill Levesque, ... • Dec 16, 2020 • Lead Story

After months of anguish and anticipation, after the long days and the longer nights of a pandemic that has stressed communities across Florida, the nation and the world, Gainesville took the first step today toward an eventual...

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UF Health among first in world to use novel diaphragmatic pacer to help COVID-19 patients breathe

By Dorothy Hagmajer • Dec 15, 2020 • Featured Articles, Lead Story

As the world’s focus shifts from COVID-19 vaccine creation to distribution, researchers and clinicians continue to search for ways to alleviate the suffering of patients and the demands on crowded hospitals. Now, after Emergency...

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Hope & Healing Blog

Josie Macchio poses with one of her paintings
The art of pediatric patient care
by Lauren Gajda • Nov 10, 2020
Anthony Macchio was already familiar with UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital. After his second daughter, Isabel, was born with a heart defect in...READ MORE
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The POST Magazine

Eternally Intertwined

August 2020

Husband, widow donate organs to same man 16 years apart.

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Health In A Heartbeat

Find a friend, improve your reading comprehension

Jan 21, 2021

Could the key to improving reading comprehension be as simple as reading with a friend? It has been known for some time that a person’s drive, attention and focus on details can increase when in the presence of others. Now, processing language could be added to that list. New research shows how a...

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Animal Airwaves

When pups leave the litter too soon

Jan 21, 2021

When puppies are antisocial or aggressive or deliver painful bites, it could be because they were taken too early from their mom and littermates. There are several reasons why litters should stay together and with Mom until the pups are at least 7 weeks old. Key among them is allowing puppies to...

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