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

Happy hour’s apparently getting a little too festive, as a new University of Florida study shows that drink specials like happy hour or ladies night dramatically increase the risk people leave a bar intoxicated. Here’s UF researcher Virginia Dodd.

This is Update Weekly, your online audio source for University of Florida news and events for the week beginning Monday May 12th, 2008.

Heart attack patients may one day treat hypertension and clear up scarring on their heart muscle with the same medication.
Testing a new class of blood pressure drugs, University of Florida researchers have been working to enhance a key enzyme called Ace-2. The enhanced Ace-2 enzyme helps relax blood vessels. But researcher […]

University of Florida engineering students have come up with a way that could make MRI exams less stressful and less noisy.

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

The old saying suggests sticks and stones do more damage than words. But now a University of Florida study links taunting or name-calling in childhood with symptoms of depression and anxiety in early adulthood.
Adolescence can prove tough enough now UF researcher Eric Storch and his team have linked verbal or social abuse […]

The Bob Graham Center for Public Service recently held an expert forum on “Media and the Presidency”; a timely topic this election year. Here’s former U.S. Senator Bob Graham introducing the panelists.

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

This is Update Weekly, your online audio source of University of Florida news and events for the week beginning Monday, April 14th.