Julio Ochoa
Julio Ochoa is editor of Health News Florida.
He comes to WUSF from The Tampa Tribune, where he began as a website producer for TBO.com and served in several editing roles, eventually becoming the newspaper’s deputy metro editor.
Julio was born and raised in St. Petersburg, and received a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado and worked at a paper in Greeley, Colo., before returning to Florida as a reporter and as breaking news editor for the Naples Daily News.
Contact Julio at 813-974-8633, on Twitter at @julioochoa or email .
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A fifth person has died in Florida from the coronavirus, state officials announced Monday evening. The person died in Orange County, a release from the... -
The state is quietly closing offices that provide help to people applying for food stamps and Medicaid in several Florida counties. -
Patients would get expanded access to prescription drugs under a bill in the Legislature that allows pharmacies to operate medication-dispensing kiosks.
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Updated at 3 p.m. ET: The president and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center resigned on Wednesday amid an investigation into Chinese efforts to influence or... -
A Tampa lawmaker is hoping to lower drug prices and improve care for Floridians by regulating companies that serve as middlemen in the health care... -
Nearly 700,000 uninsured Floridians are eligible for free health insurance through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, according to a report from the... -
Red tide appears to have receded from much of the Tampa Bay area this week. -
The State of Florida is now providing consumers with more information about health care costs. Governor Ron DeSantis visited a Walmart in Palm Harbor on... -
Red tide has returned to the Tampa Bay area. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported that a bloom of the organism that causes red... -
The percentage of children living in high-poverty neighborhoods in Florida has decreased 8 percent since the Great Recession, according to a new study...