GAINESVILLE — A year after University of Florida veterinarians removed a piece of bone from her badly fractured shoulder in a procedure believed to be the first of its kind, Graceful Leaguer, a 9-year-old quarter horse, is home with her owner after building back her strength through a combination of play and rehabilitative exercise.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System and specific community-based medical facilities in Northwest Florida have partnered together to share a limited amount of electronic veteran patient data securely through the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) health program.
HURLBURT FIELD — The Hurlburt Field Chapter of the Air Force Association gave 24 Air Commandos of the 1st Special Operations Wing unsung hero awards during a Dec. 4 ceremony at the Soundside Club.
In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer.
University of Florida professors are researching how to use pig kidneys as a framework for human kidney transplants, which could possible shorten the length of time kidney failure patients will have to wait for a new organ in the future.
A man formerly residing in Pace was booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail on Sunday for his connection to a string of several car burglaries that occurred last spring, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
A Navarre woman was arrested last Tuesday after she was found to be in possession of stolen medications, according to a Santa Rosa County Sherriff’s Office report.
Two arrests were made after officers discovered a methamphetamine lab in a residence on the 8300 block of Segura Street, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
