University of Central Florida administrators scrapped a multi-million dollar plan to build a dental school near its college of medicine in Lake Nona. The university’s plan to build the dental school was announced in May. A key committee was set to review its plans Wednesday and the Florida Board of Governors would have voted on [...]
Written by: Lloyd N. Werk, MD, MPH Parents often struggle when guiding their child to eat healthy nutritious meals and establishing healthy eating habits for children at an early age with balanced meals is important. Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) replaced their “food pyramid” model with MyPlate to make it easier to figure [...]
For years this editorial board has encouraged and applauded the development of Orlando’s Medical City at Lake Nona. We believe its success is critical to building a broader, stronger economy in Central Florida — an economy that goes beyond tourism and construction. So we can’t help but be drawn to a proposal to locate a [...]
The Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute scored $300 million in 2006 when it agreed to set up shop in Central Florida, making it one of the largest beneficiaries of public incentive money in state history. Just five years later, the institute that is central to Orlando’s “medical city” development – along with UCF’s medical school and [...]
University of Central Florida plans to open a dental school near its College of Medicine in the heart of Lake Nona’s Medical City. UCF officials announced Thursday that they’re looking to open a College of Dental Medicine in 2014 that would graduate about 100 dentists a year. But some state officials and administrators at other [...]
If you look good in a white lab coat or consider a stethoscope a must-have accessory, Orlando is becoming a prime job market. It’s not often that this city is touted as a leader in new high-wage jobs, but the region is poised to grow its image as a medical cluster over the next 18 [...]
Orlando’s VA hospital, with 134 in-patient beds, will shorten the trip for 90,000 veterans in Central Florida who now go to VA hospitals in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Gainesville. Veterans and elected officials marked the halfway point Sunday in the construction of the $665 million Orlando VA Medical Center with a “topping out” ceremony. A [...]
Scientists at Orlando’s Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have come up with an unusual new model for studying the way muscles work and how that relates to obesity: a couch-potato mouse. In a new study being released today in the journal Cell Metabolism, Dr. Daniel Kelly and a team of colleagues at Sanford-Burnham’s Lake Nona campus [...]
The holidays can put even the most health conscious parents to the test when it comes to keeping their family’s healthy habits on track. With goodie bags having leftover Halloween treats and the promise of Thanksgiving stuffing and Christmas cookies just around the corner, it’s no wonder we’re all resolving to adopt some diet by [...]
Today’s economy is both a stressful and terrifying time for graduates. With Florida’s high unemployment rate, some graduates remain in school longer than necessary rather than face the harsh reality that is today’s job market. However, life after graduation isn’t as scary of a thought for all graduates. UCF’s Medical Laboratory Science program, offered through [...]
