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Horses find homes at auction

The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office auctioned four abused horses Saturday.

Flu shots now free at Student Health Care Center

Students looking to prevent the flu this season can now receive free flu vaccines available on campus.

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Renovated SW Rec highlights UF recreation offerings

After one year and $16.3 million worth of construction and renovation, the Southwest Recreation Center is scheduled to reopen on Wednesday.

Smokers still smoking

It's been about a month since UF's campus-wide tobacco ban went into effect, and so far it doesn't seem like much has changed.

Ticket policy is unfair for sick students

If you are a student and need to go to the neurology, oncology, or any of the other important ‘ology clinics at Shands Medical Plaza: beware.

Student Health Care Center to take insurance

Senators were all about the money during Tuesday night's meeting.

Smoking ban encroaches on rights

There is something very unsettling in the way modern society is beginning to parallel the fictional worlds presented by writers such as Orwell, Huxley and Rand. From the disturbing similarities between contemporary texting language and Orwell’s Newspeak to the health care battles that still continue to rage in Congress, it is undeniable that, at some point in the last 50 years, the line between fact and fiction began to blur.

Student Health Care Center offers services for sexual health

After seeing the column ‘Sexual health care on the cheap’ in the May 13th edition of the Alligator, we’d like to remind readers that the UF Student Health Care Center also offers a full range of sexual health care services available to students.

Students raise $517K for children's charity

The O’Connell Center erupted with the cheers of 725 sleep-deprived dancers Sunday afternoon when UF’s Dance Marathon staff members announced they raised a record-breaking $517,260.79 to help sick children, an increase of more than $100,000 from last year’s earnings.

The truth behind organic foods

I hope you all are studying hard and getting ready for finals. In case you missed it, check out my Avenue story about eating healthy on campus, particularly when you're swamped with work.

Counselors explain crisis response protocol

Kofi Adu-Brempong was afraid he was going to be kidnapped, taken to Africa and slain in a ritual killing.

Eating healthy not impossible

It’s five minutes until your next class. You have just come out of a three-hour-block and now have to run across campus to present a project. By the way, your stomach is growling.

Former Senate majority leader holds video talk

Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., answered questions from a small group of UF students and professors on health care legislation, obesity and Haiti recovery via satellite Monday night.

Dieting and nutrition advice

In case you didn't get a chance to see it, check out my Avenue story about the different group fitness classes UF's Department of Recreational Sports offers like the Yoga class I talked about last week (watch the video here).

Broken toilet floods Student Health Care Center

A sickly toilet on the third floor of the Student Health Care Center caused water to flood through three floors of the infirmary Thursday.

Medical professor passes away at 81

Willie Joe Sanders had five children of his own to care for, but he also acted as a father figure for countless UF medical students.

Counselors see increase in eating disorders in spring

After packing on the pounds during colder months and concealing the weight under heavy winter clothing, students begin to lose weight fast before summer.

New tobacco policy urges campus to ‘kick butts’

Peer pressure can lead people to start smoking, but UF is hoping it can help people stop smoking on campus.

Pepsi products shed calories

UF’s vending machines will still look the same, but many of the products inside them might look and taste a little different when one corporation makes big changes.