By Juliana Jimenez

The chemotherapy left small burns on her legs, hands and the tip of her nose. If she could, she would do this twice a day, like the doctors recommend. But each treatment costs $80, money she can’t afford.

By Matt Walsh

The Native American-based store, Otter and Trout Trading Company, provides a healing and helping hand to people of all ages through alternative forms of medicine for those who can’t afford health insurance or the pricey bills for prescription drugs.

By Staff

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) is an international student-led campaign that seeks to increase access to medicines that are developed in university laboratories and to increase research on neglected tropical diseases. Our efforts focus on working with the Technology Transfer Officer at UF and building student, faculty and community support for our campaign.

By Lydia Fiser

The New York Times called the House of Representative’s passing of the Affordable Health Care for America Act a “landmark” in achieving affordable universal health care. While the Act may be a landmark, it’s not in the sense that the New York Times claims. Instead, it’s a landmark statement of who our government is committed [...]

By Travis Pillow

The United States spend 16 percent of its GDP on health care – far more than any other country, but has some of the worst health stats in the industrialized world. Here’s a look at the lessons we can learn from other countries: Japan Percentage of GDP spent on health care: 8.1 How does it [...]

By Joel Mora

Helping Hands Clinic: Health Care for the Homeless from Joel Mora on Vimeo.

By Jessica Newman

The U.S. is the only industrialized country in the world that does not provide universal health care to its citizens. There are more than 40 million uninsured people in this country, and insurance companies have quadrupled their profits since 2002, according to the Harper’s Index. But whether you believe we should keep our corporate system, [...]

By Jessica Newman

Now that Alachua General Hospital has closed, low-income and uninsured Gainesville residents who relied on its emergency room for medical care have another, profit-driven option — a Solantic Urgent Care Center. Solantic, a private urgent care center that already has one location in Gainesville and is opening another, is partnering with Shands at UF to [...]

By Lydia Fiser

Between 2000 and 2006, 137,000 adults ages 25 to 64 died because they were uninsured and couldn’t get the care they needed, according to the Institute of Medicine. These deaths were preventable and simply a byproduct of our health care system. That’s why our country is debating health care reform, but the debate has turned [...]