The 19th annual Dance Marathon at the University of Florida had come to an end after 26.2 hours - and having raised a record amount of donations: $1,169,722 for the patients of Shands Hospital for Children at UF, part of the Children’s Miracle Network.
Your child is ill and you take her temperature and the reading - 102F - sends your heart racing. Your first instinct is to call the doctor or go to the emergency room. But in most cases what you should do instead: Take a deep breath and relax.
Cold and windy weather did not stop the first Ribs for Kids festival in Ocala from being a huge success.
Two first responders based in Marion County have been keeping vigil since March 10 at Shands at the University of Florida in Gainesville while their 13-year-old son is being kept alive by a Berlin external heart pump as he awaits a heart transplant.
Congratulations to the Department of Pediatrics award recipients!
Dr. Martinko’s commitment to the community and his patients is his recent Black History Month Contest.
Aidan Benefield insisted on a special nightly prayer all last year for his preschool classmate Landon Parish. The boys, both 5, attended First United Methodist Church of Ocala preschool until Landon became too ill.
Markus Renno, M.D., recently completed a four-week child advocacy internship in Washington, DC. The internship program focused on child health policy, the legislative process, federal advocacy and public affairs activities.
UF students set up their research posters during the Emerging Pathogens Institute’s sixth annual Research Day, showcasing more than 100 investigations into ways to prevent or contain new and re-emerging diseases.
Like a lot of kids his age, 6-year-old Dylan Siegel loves coming up with stories. But unlike most kids, he has a best friend with a rare genetic disease. So when Dylan wanted to raise money for a cure for Jonah Pournazarian, 7, who suffers from Glycogen Storage Disease, he decided to do it in a creative way.
