During November, the University of Florida will shine a “blue” spotlight on diabetes with several events planned to raise awareness and promote prevention of the disease.

Patients, visitors and employees at the University of Florida Health Science Center campus and Shands HealthCare facilities throughout north central Florida are now Tobacco-Free Together.

UF pediatric residents focus on advocacy.

UF’s College of Medicine recently implemented electronic medical records for the first time at a clinic the college runs in Old Town, Fla. Here, COM and clinic leaders discuss the change.

The University of Florida College of Medicine’s psychiatry department adds new eating disorder and obesity division.

A young family teams up with the UF Powell Gene Therapy Center to battle Pompe disease. Their story of hope and courage is featured in the Fall 2009 issue of the Florida Physician.

The Southern Scholarship Foundation dedicates one of its nine scholarship houses in Gainesville to female medical students, providing rent-free housing to nine qualifying students. Living in the Rogers Rotary House helps alleviate some of the students’ financial burdens.

Shands and the University of Florida have been recognized by the Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation as a center of excellence for research and patient care of myelodysplastic syndromes, cancers that affect bone marrow.

First-year medical students conquer first week of classes.

COM informatics specialists developed a new Web site that could help Florida kids get fit.