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Dance Marathon: For the Kids

Dance Marathon at the University of Florida is a year-round fundraising organization that culminates in a 26.2-hour event at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center, where UF students stay awake and on their feet to show their support and raise money for Shands Hospital for Children at UF, a Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) hospital.

Friends for life

UF’s Streetlight program gives teens with chronic illnesses what they sometimes need most, a friend.

Gym equipment unlikely source of MRSA

According to a new University of Florida study published in the American Journal of Infection Control that aggressive cleaning policies may not actually be necessary to prevent the spread of community-acquired form of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

“Bad Blood”

UF researchers work to improve treatments for people who have hemophilia.