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By WJ Rossi, Brian Watson and Ben Doty “Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward in the face of fear.” – Abraham Lincoln These are challenging times for all of us. We have high numbers of unemployed citizens, businesses have temporarily or permanently closed, and, of course, the specter of testing...

Stephen Camps of Pro-Care Janitorial Services has been serving the people of Gainesville with ultimate cleanliness for 33 years. Camps grew up in a clean home with parents who taught him how to sanitize and limit the spread of germs. He has always been cautious of germs and worked in the cleaning business with his...

Allen Korson went from a kidney stone ailment to needing a multiorgan transplant, both lungs and a liver, one of the rarest procedures performed in the United States due to its complexity. There had only been 125 double-lung and liver transplants performed in the United States before this year. When Korson arrived in Gainesville, UF...

UF Health Shands Hospital accepted a major donation of nearly 100,000 face masks from Cox Business Florida & Georgia. This donation provides essential equipment for the health system’s front-line workers who continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation by Cox Communications includes 55,000 filtered masks and 35,000 surgical-style masks. It is among the largest...

Small, single-vaccine clinical trials may not provide sufficient evidence that a COVID-19 vaccine is effective enough to provide significant protection, writes a group of World Health Organization scientists, including the University of Florida’s Ira Longini, Ph.D., in a commentary published last week in the journal The Lancet. “You need large numbers and multiple products in...

Ology Bioservices Inc., a biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The contract ceiling value is $106.3 million, of which $53.1 million was obligated at the time of award. In this program, Ology Bioservices will manage the reservation of production...

Jim McKenzie, the headmaster at the Rock School, uses his love for teaching and leadership to improve the education, skills and character of his students. McKenzie, who was born into a family of educators, knew he wanted to teach since he was in high school. However, his friends encouraged him to go into something with...

Home sales activity in July was very positive and shows that home sales were up by 10.6% year over year. In other good news, the average sales price increased by 6.7 % and the time homes were on the market were down 4.2%. The Alachua County real estate market is strong. While it was a...

When Sridharan Gururangan, FRCP, joined the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of neurosurgery in 2016, he had a big goal for the university: become a member of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. On July 16, Gururangan achieved that objective when UF was named one of four new PBTC member institutions along with the...