Health

Mayo Clinic in Florida has opened a new Community Health Collaborative in downtown Jacksonville. The office aims to understand the healthcare needs of Mayo Clinic’s neighbors and share health education and biomedical research that supports […]

More than 53 million Americans provide unpaid caregiving to family members in their home. This difficult responsibility challenges caregivers with life and death decisions they are sometimes unprepared to make. Local nonprofit ElderSource has spent […]

August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month. It’s a time of celebrating organ donation and educating people about transplantation by encouraging donor registration and promoting healthy living. Dr. Shennen Mao, a Mayo Clinic transplant surgeon, says having a […]

Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver. The five main strains of the hepatitis virus are referred to as types A, B, C, D and E. While they all cause liver disease, they differ in geographic prevalence, […]

Screening guidelines for various cancers change as experts learn more about those diseases. Sometimes changes are made to decrease over-testing. In other cases, screening becomes available at younger ages or updated frequencies. Regardless, cancer screening […]

Early detection and regular breast cancer screenings are key to reducing death from breast cancer. Mammograms remain the best tool available and have been shown to reduce deaths from breast cancer. Age recommendations for when women should start yearly […]

HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital held their annual tribute to trauma survivors. Patients, nurses, doctors, community leaders, family members and other care givers got to hear first-hand how the medical experts helped each survivor build […]

At Jacksonville’s 27th Semi-Annual Senior Expo inside the Prime Osborn Center UF research teams CaRE2 and PACT (Preventing Alzheimer’s through Cognitive Training) joined forces to disseminate both cancer health and Alzheimer’s research information. Both groups […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — April 26, 2023 —LifeSouth Community Blood Centers, headquartered in Gainesville, Fla., was selected to provide CD-34 cells (stem cells) to Dr. Abba Zubair of Mayo Clinic in Florida for his research study […]

April is IBS Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. Research suggests that about 12% of people in the U.S. have irritable bowel syndrome, and […]