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“United Way of North Central Florida fights for the health, education and financial stability of every person in our community,” is not just a tagline, it is our mantra. At United Way, we believe everything is connected. If a child does not have adequate dental care, tooth pain can affect their ability to focus in...

Workplace disengagement has become a United States epidemic. According to Gallup, only 30% of Americans are engaged with their job, creating a significant drain on the economy. Now recognized as a bottom line issue, business owners are actively combatting disengagement to improve performance, increase employee loyalty, and ultimately, grow revenues. With the development of these...

Eating healthy on a busy schedule can be challenging, but nowhere is it more difficult than in the office during lunchtime. You have a midday energy slump, plus you ate out yesterday for a meeting. Then, on top of that, Steve is taking orders for a cheap and fast sandwich delivery, and Carol’s birthday is...

It’s no secret that work can be stressful and one way that businesses are increasing productivity in their stressed out employees is yet another yoga trend. The opportunities to practice yoga seem to be limitless; we have hot yoga, normal yoga, and a plentiful of fancy name yoga. In a 2016 study conducted by Yoga...

The City of Gainesville’s Regional Transit System (RTS) has been awarded $3 million in federal funding to enhance its service and fleet. The most recent is a $1 million dollar Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Low or No-Emission (called “Low-No”) grant to augment the transit fleet with electric vehicles. Gainesville was one of three cities in...

With hospitals providing continuing quality improvements and advancements in patient care, medical technology, new product developments, and burgeoning high technology in general; a healthcare area that is on the front lines of highly specialized advanced care: Executive Health. The University of Florida’s Douglas Williams Executive Health Program (UF Executive Health) delivers comprehensive and personalized diagnostics...

43North, the $5 million startup competition, has announced Gainesville-based company Immersed Games as one of the 18 global finalists. The company will compete in Buffalo, NY for a $1 million grand prize in early October. Immersed Games helps teachers deliver hands-on, Next Generation Science learning, with a video game. The game, Tyto Online, builds science...

University of Florida Health officials and Alachua County and city of Gainesville emergency first responders announced the launch of a smartphone app that alerts citizens to a nearby cardiac emergency and empowers them to help, which officials say could double the survival rate from cardiac arrest in Gainesville and the surrounding area. PulsePoint Respond is...

UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech, the leading biotechnology incubator at the University of Florida, announced recently that resident company Lacerta Therapeutics, Inc., has closed on a $30 million investment round. Lacerta is a clinical-stage gene therapy company using a constellation of proprietary adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector technologies to develop treatments for central nervous system...

On a scale of one to 10, how happy are your employees? If you scored them on the high end of the spectrum, would they agree with you? And if you have a boss, exactly how happy are you on a daily basis? Happiness at work—loosely defined as a feeling of contentment, purpose and satisfaction—is...