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There is a critical need for Type O blood In Collier Count to help boost the Community Blood Center's critically low blood product inventories.The local shortage is due to a sudden increase in area use. The only way to obtain adequate levels of transfusable blood is through donations.
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The White House released data for Affordable Care Act enrollment for 2024 today, and it is record-breaking.
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State education officials are slated next week to approve a proposed rule that would require Florida’s public colleges to have supplies of emergency opioid antagonists, such as naloxone, in residence halls and dormitories. The proposal stems from a 2023 bill (HB 783) approved by the Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis. Opioid antagonists are used to treat people who overdose by counteracting “the life-threatening depression of the central nervous system and respiratory system that results from an opioid overdose,” a House analysis of the bill said.
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President Biden has worked to lower prescription drug costs, including for Floridians.
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This weekend turn your clocks forward and test your smoke alarms to prevent home fire tragedies. Home fires claim seven lives every day in U.S.
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More than 61,000 pounds of steamed chicken soup dumplings sold at Trader Joe’s are being recalled for possibly containing hard plastic, U.S. regulators announced Saturday.The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service noted that the now-recalled dumplings, which are produced by the California-based CJ Foods Manufacturing Beaumont Corp., may be contaminated with foreign materials — “specifically hard plastic from a permanent marker pen.”
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A precautionary boil water notice issued Feb. 12 has been rescinded for an estimated 1,000 residences and 100 commercial sites in east Fort Myers.
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"Health Freedom" backers dominate discussion on fluoride. Collier Commission votes to stop adding it to water
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A Sarasota-based organization promoting an abortion amendment for the 2024 Florida General Election ballot says it has received notice from the state that the issue will be on the ballot this year as Amendment 4, pending Florida Supreme Court review.Floridians Protecting Freedom issued a media release Friday that said it had received notification on the issue from the Florida Division of Elections.However, that notification isn't a guarantee. The amendment language was submitted for review to the Supreme Court last year by the state attorney general and a hearing is scheduled in February to hear arguments.
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Less than a year after passing a measure that would ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, Republican lawmakers are pursuing an effort to allow parents to file civil lawsuits seeking damages for the wrongful death of an “unborn child.”The proposal, sponsored by a Fort Myers Republican lawmaker and approved Thursday by the House Civil Justice Subcommittee, would add “unborn child” to a law that allows family members to seek damages when a person's death is caused by such things as wrongful acts or negligence.