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As Florida medical boards continue advancing proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth living with gender dysphoria, we explore how gender-affirming care for minors is actually carried out. We also hear the story of one local family now getting gender-affirming care for their teenage sons.

Governor Ron DeSantis announced a new executive order, July 8, aimed at adding transparency to the role of pharmacy benefit managers in administering prescription drug programs, that he says may be contributing to increasing medication costs. At a press conference in Cape Coral, DeSantis also said the state could wind up in a legal battle with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the federal government’s delay in approving Florida’s Canadian drug importation program.

Governor Ron DeSantis held a press conference in Naples Tuesday, during which he criticized the Biden administration for not providing Florida with the requested number of monoclonal antibody treatment doses. He also discussed the state’s guidance on scaling back COVID-19 testing and plans to get at-home coronavirus tests to vulnerable populations like senior communities.

State Health officials, Thursday, reported a new record high number of COVID-19 cases documented in a single day since the pandemic began.The Florida Department of Health reported 3,207 new cases of the virus, June 18, bringing the statewide total to 85,926 cases.State health officials also reported 43 new coronavirus-related deaths, Thursday, increasing the statewide death toll to 3,061 fatalities including 1,612 deaths in long-term care facilities.

High-profile disputes about whether Florida abortion clinics improperly performed second-trimester abortions will be argued before administrative law...

A Gainesville abortion clinic has requested a hearing before an administrative law judge in a dispute with the state Agency for Health Care...

A fight between Planned Parenthood and Gov. Rick Scott's administration escalated on Wednesday, with state health officials saying three clinics can...

Florida’s top healthcare official says her agency was right to cite state planned parenthood clinics for violating abortion rules. But Planned...

Gov. Rick Scott ordered the state to immediately investigate all Florida Planned Parenthood offices that perform abortions on Wednesday.The order comes…

An online news service is reporting that Governor Rick Scott was warned the cost estimates he's been using to debate the federal health care law are too…