University of Florida News

GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Leslie McClellan, 68, could barely hold an empty soft drink can with his left hand years after a stroke rendered his left side almost completely useless. Forget about picking up a piece of paper or grasping a pencil — or, worse yet, preparing meals.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.–Reform efforts and a booming economy have carved 100,000 people off Florida’s welfare rolls in recent years, but a new University of Florida study shows that many of the most vulnerable former aid recipients continue to be plagued by poverty, joblessness and inadequate health care.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.—The bony, Twiggy-thin figure may be in style in Hollywood, but most people don’t find the look attractive, according to a new University of Florida study.

VERO BEACH—The risk of a widespread St. Louis encephalitis epidemic in Florida this year is almost nonexistent, says a medical entomologist with the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Most of us have experienced eating and eating until suddenly we’re so stuffed we can hardly waddle from the table to the couch.

GAINESVILLE, Fla.—For years, aerobic exercise has been touted as a key to preventing heart disease, but now it turns out that buffing your biceps and pumping your pecs also may be heart healthy.