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The COVID Restore program was one of the first post-COVID care clinics to emerge in the United States.

The 1st District Court of Appeal on Wednesday considered whether to allow a potential class-action lawsuit that contends the University of Florida should return fees to students because of a campus shutdown early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The university appealed after a judge refused to dismiss a potential class-action lawsuit that contends the school should refund fees to students who were forced to learn remotely.

Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Michael Haller says treatments that new Florida guidelines warn against would occur only after considerable and detailed evaluations with patients and families.

Friedreich’s Ataxia, which causes muscle weakness and a loss of balance and coordination, affects one in 50,000 Americans. Symptoms begin showing between ages 5 and 15.

Experiments will take place within Hillsborough County strawberry and tomato farms over the next four years thanks to an $850,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

UF researchers are finding that more and more people are experiencing long-haul conditions following their recovery including fatigue, brain fog and parosmia, a distorted sense of smell.

In December, UF researchers predicted the omicron wave would reach its peak in February, but with the recent surge they’re now predicting the variant will peak within the next two weeks in the state.

In a study this month, researchers concluded that "the omicron wave in Florida is likely to cause many more infections than occurred during the delta wave" — about 40,000 new cases per day.

Whether or not researchers discover brevetoxins in the pesky flies, the results are expected to be scientifically relevant.

There are a lot of students following safety precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but there are also a lot that are not, says Gainesville City Commissioner David Arreola.

Researchers found that kratom tea alleviated some withdrawal symptoms, such as difficulty breathing, in morphine-addicted mice.