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Published: August 28 1998
GAINESVILLE — The value of Florida’s citrus groves is plummeting because of a glut of fruit, while urbanization is rapidly pushing up the value of agricultural land near cities, a University of Florida survey shows.
Published: August 27 1998
GAINESVILLE—Many exhausted parents marvel at their preschool children, who run and jump their way through the day and still beg to do more. But an alarming number of children under 5 don’t fit this pattern: They exercise too little, eat too much and are seriously overweight, University of Florida researchers say.
Published: August 27 1998
GAINESVILLE—Fueled by a generous gift from the Miami-based Alpha One Foundation, the University of Florida Gene Therapy Center is slated to become the premier research site for an underdiagnosed, potentially fatal lung-liver disease.
Published: August 26 1998
GAINESVILLE — No one wants to live near a landfill.
Published: August 25 1998
GAINESVILLE — Consumer confidence slipped in August amid volatility in the stock market, international terrorist attacks and the deepening scandal in the White House, University of Florida economists report.
Published: August 21 1998
GAINESVILLE — In a procedure never before performed on a bird, University of Florida veterinarians — with help from a human hand surgeon — have implanted a fingerlike, artificial joint in a rare Siberian crane.
Published: August 20 1998
GAINESVILLE — With hermetically sealed walls and numerous life support systems, space craft are intended to protect astronauts from deadly conditions outside.
Published: August 20 1998
GAINESVILLE—The University of Florida has received a one-year grant totaling more than $8 million to further develop continuing education programs for doctors in the field of vascular biology, officials announced today.
Published: August 18 1998
GAINESVILLE — Looking for a room with a view and good lighting may be as important to students as unpacking the bookcase and microwave when settling into a college dormitory, a new University of Florida study finds.
Published: August 14 1998
GAINESVILLE — A 37-year-old Florida man was in good condition and scheduled for discharge today (8/14) at Shands at the University of Florida, three days after UF surgeons performed a first in the Southeast: removal of a kidney from a live donor using a rare technique credited with decreasing the donor’s postoperative recovery time, scarring and pain.
Published: August 14 1998
GAINESVILLE — A major University of Florida research effort to improve breast exam X-ray images using computers will undergo its first trial this fall, when radiologists determine whether the more detailed mammograms better show early signs of breast cancer.
Published: August 13 1998
GAINESVILLE — University of Florida researchers are using a new technology that could reduce the cleanup time of some stubborn hazardous waste sites from years to days.
Published: August 11 1998
GAINESVILLE—El Niño will long be remembered for this year’s onslaught of natural disasters across the nation. Wildfires blazed out of control, deadly tornadoes fell from the sky, flood waters rolled over plains and droughts dried farmlands. All this, and the height of hurricane season looms.
Published: August 6 1998
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Some people find inhaling helium fun at a party, where the squeaky, high-pitched voices it creates can be comical. But for deep-water divers, who breathe a helium-oxygen mix, such speech distortions can prove dangerous and costly.
Published: August 5 1998
GAINESVILLE — Cocaine abuse does not necessarily affect motherly love, according to a University of Florida study that finds mothers who use the drug during pregnancy care for their babies just as much as moms who abstained.
Published: August 4 1998
GAINESVILLE — When 26 children became ill after swimming in a kiddie pool at an Atlanta water park earlier this summer, health investigators said it was because low chlorine levels failed to kill harmful bacteria in the water.
Published: August 7 1998
GAINESVILLE — Summer cold sufferers take heart: A new University of Florida study offers new evidence that zinc — the latest rage in cold remedies — may provide immediate protection against disease.