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A disease is threatening Florida's $20 million rose industry. The disease is rose rosette. It's appeared in three north Florida nurseries and a retail… -
A new study from Johns Hopkins University shows Florida’s pill mill crackdown worked in its first year.After becoming the epicenter for prescription… -
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV Surveillance Report ranks the Cape Coral-Fort Myers metropolitan area 16th in the nation in 2013… -
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 2.7 million people in the U.S. are living with chronic Hepatitis C. Between 2012… -
Skin. It’s the largest organ of the body. So, it’s not surprising that skin cancer, specifically melanoma, is in the top five of the most common cancers… -
A 2013 report from the United Kingdom’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers finds that between 30% and 50% of all food produced worldwide ends up wasted… -
Lee Memorial Health System has opened two breast milk depots at Cape Coral Hospital and HealthPark Medical Center. Florida’s first breast milk bank opened… -
820 Floridians could die from melanoma this year. It’s the most lethal form of skin cancer. A recent study cited by the Centers for Disease Control and… -
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as five million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease and that number is… -
Lee County hospitals saw a significant rise from 2013 to 2014 in the number of babies born experiencing withdrawal from narcotics like heroin and some…
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