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In just two weeks, several categories of lawfully present immigrants will no longer be eligible for health care coverage.
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New Medicaid work reporting requirements are bound to hurt rural communities most.
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Advocates for cancer patients and cancer survivors have joined Florida medical associations in objecting to a revived Florida Department of Health plan to strike four longstanding vaccine mandates that the advocates say are safe and life-saving.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that the cyclospora outbreak that sickened hundreds across the United States since May has ended.
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Measles cases continue to appear in Collier County.
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The longest wait for an emergency room visit in Florida is in Fort Myers, at Lee Health's Gulf Coast Medical Center. The average wait there is 4 hours, 34 minutes.
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The problem was discovered during routine import reinspection testing when a product sample confirmed positive for Listeria monocytogenes. There have been no confirmed reports of illness due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a healthcare provider.
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Some children in your local school may use a feeding tube for nutrition. It's important that their classmates learn to accept it.
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A multistate outbreak of salmonella linked to eggs is over and the investigation closed.
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An ongoing recall of frozen blueberries implicated in an outbreak of E coli has now been expanded to include another brand.
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