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Published: April 30 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Consumer confidence among Floridians declined in April after its most dramatic increase in more than a decade last month, underscoring the fact that signs of an economic turnaround remain unclear, University of Florida economists said today.
Published: April 24 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Life just got even easier for the family couch potato.
Published: April 19 2002
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— To slow and hopefully stop the spread of harmful Australian melaleuca trees in South Florida, researchers from the University of Florida and U.S. Department of Agriculture will release a tiny insect predator Monday at the eastern edge of Everglades National Park in Broward County.
Published: April 18 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s a classic example of motherly love: With her young son’s life in danger, mom puts herself in harm’s way and donates her own kidney to ensure the youngster’s survival.
Published: April 17 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Every shuttle launch depends on cutting-edge technology, highly trained technicians, and some plain, old-fashioned tanker trucks – 50 of them, to be exact.
Published: April 9 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Fifteen months after the presidential election that puzzled a nation and embarrassed a state, a University of Florida study reveals Florida voters say the state should do more to teach residents how to cast a ballot.
Published: April 4 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — They run fast and jump high, sometimes suffering torn cartilage and broken bones as a result.
Published: April 19 2002
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — Just in time for Earth Day, a UF researcher is leading an effort to restore one of nature’s most valuable beach defenses: sea oats.
Published: April 3 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Here’s a daunting task: In a post-Sept. 11, Enron-stunned world, defend luxury.
Published: April 2 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The closer people are to death, the more likely they are to believe in their right to die, suggests a University of Florida study that finds a wide generation gap on the subject of living and dying.
Published: April 1 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Obese people are three times more likely to die after a lung transplant than individuals at healthier weights, providing first-time evidence that extremely heavy people should lose weight before having lung transplant surgery, University of Florida researchers have found.
Published: April 9 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With an eye on this November’s elections, a University of Florida professor warns that despite changes made in the wake of the state’s 2000 presidential election foul-ups, Florida has not solved some of its key voting problems.
Published: April 11 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A team of University of Florida researchers has used gene therapy to develop a tiny biological machine that could one day be injected into heart attack-prone patients to recognize and stop new heart attacks.
Published: April 23 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Neuroscientists have demonstrated that a selected gene, when injected into rats, sets off the progressive brain cell destruction that causes human Parkinson’s disease — a discovery they believe provides a better model for investigating the disease process.
Published: April 26 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—University of Florida surgeons at Shands Transplant Center at UF performed a double-lung transplant on a 3-month-old infant – the youngest patient ever to undergo this surgery in Florida.