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This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of February 26th.

Millions of older Americans battle hearing loss, but thanks to new audio technology like Ipods and noisy toys, experts say today’s children risk hearing damage earlier in life than their parents or grandparents did. Here’s UF audiologist Michelle Colburn.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of February 19th.

The United States leads the world in shark attacks and most of those attacks happen in Florida waters. That’s the finding of the University of Florida’s annual report on worldwide shark attacks. Here’s UF shark expert George Burgess.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of February 12th.

Strep throat strikes about one out of three school kids each year. Now, University of Florida research shows strep infections may lead to more than achy throats. In a study of about seven-hundred grade schoolers, researchers found that as strep infections increased, a rise in tics, jerky movements and obsessive behaviors followed. [...]

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of February 5th.