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INFLCR Gators Made Exchange will allow student-athletes and businesses exploring Name, Image and Likeness opportunities to connect directly through a streamlined, free platform.    The Florida athletic program, in conjunction with INFLCR, has launched Gators Made Exchange, which will allow athletes and businesses to connect directly. This streamlined, easy to navigate platform, is a free...

UF Health Shands Hospital has been recognized as high performing among the nation’s best for high-quality, patient-centered maternity care, according to U.S. News & World Report’s inaugural Best Hospitals for Maternity rating. The rating, based on data from 2019, focuses on hospitals that provide the highest quality of care for uncomplicated — not high-risk —...

Axogen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXGN), a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for damage or transection to peripheral nerves, has announced that nerve repair patient Christopher (Chris) Brown has been selected to ride on the 2022 Donate Life Rose Parade Float. Additionally, organ and tissue donor Paul Flanders will be honored through a...

On Tuesday, December 7, 2021 the Gainesville Quarterback Club held its final meeting of the year which included the appointment of the 2022 Board of Directors, including for the first time in the club’s 71-year history, a woman, Mrs. Tricia Garzon. In 2018, the club changed its original charter, established in 1950, to open membership...

The Alachua County Arts Council will host the first annual Artists Conference on Friday, January 21, 2022, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the Jack Durrance Auditorium, on the second floor of the Alachua County Administration Building (12 S.E. 1st Street, Gainesville). The conference is for local Alachua County artists. Attendees can join either...

The Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has granted Three-Year Accreditation to the cancer program at North Florida Regional Medical Center (NFRMC).  To earn voluntary CoC accreditation, a cancer program must meet 34 CoC quality care standards, be evaluated every three years through a survey process, and...

Southern Charm Kitchen, Inc. has purchased the property it has been leasing from the City of Gainesville since 2011 for $215,000. This purchase further establishes Southern Charm Kitchen as a mainstay of east Gainesville cuisine. The success story began in 2008 when the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) purchased the properties at 1712 and 1714...

Two veteran educators have been chosen by their peers to represent Alachua County Public Schools in Florida’s Principal and Assistant Principal of the Year programs. Dr. Beth LeClear, the current principal at Lake Forest Elementary School, was selected by her fellow principals as the district’s Principal of the Year. LeClear has been the principal at...

Cyclo Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYTH), a clinical stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing life-changing medicines through science and innovation for patients and families living with diseases,announced it has received notification that its study may proceed from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for its initial investigational new drug (“IND”) application for a Phase 2...

The University of Florida has been selected to join The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s landmark clinical study, the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), a global project seeking to discover new insights into the onset and progression of Parkinson’s disease by studying people with and without the disease. On Dec. 2, The Michael J. Fox Foundation...