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Older adults who enjoy a few alcoholic beverages each week can potentially reduce their risk of heart disease or death by about 25 percent.
That’s the finding of a University of Florida study that shows moderate alcohol consumption can cut the risk of a heart attack or death thanks to cellular or genetic interactions in [...]

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of September 11th.

Divorce can wreak havoc on the lives of children, but now University of Florida research shows that it actually helps school-age girls when parents make a clean break from a bad marriage, rather than continuing a troubled union.

New research suggests that a generation of young mothers may not be able to breast-feed their babies because their mothers were exposed to pesticides. For more, here’s Research Report.

Apparently sex may not sell anymore, at least not for young women, who a new University of Florida study shows are increasingly bored by sexy ads in magazines.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of September 4th.

Kindergartners who bring a simple set of reading skills to the first day of school can look forward to years of success in the classroom. For more, here’s Research Report.

Consumers in Florida have become so pessimistic about the economy and their own finances that consumer confidence in August fell to its lowest level in thirteen years.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of August 28th.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of August 21st.