Healthcare

Florida voters rejected adding abortion rights to their state constitution Tuesday, keeping a ban on abortion after the first six weeks of pregnancy in place.

The Biden Administration has proposed a new rule to make contraception more accessible and more affordable.

Amendment 4 supporters accused the members of the Financial Impact Estimating Conference of misleading voters by including that the measure could lead to Medicaid-funded abortions and costly lawsuits.

In Immokalee, one woman is redefining the healthcare approach in her community. Dr. Kristen Dimas discusses her role as director of the new Family Medicine Residency Program and what motivates her to give back.

Medical giant HCA Healthcare, which operates 180 hospitals in the U.S. and Britain, says the personal data of about 11 million patients in 20 states may have been stolen in a data breach.Samples of the data, including addresses, phone numbers, emails and birth dates, were posted to an online forum popular with cybercrooks by a hacker trying to sell them.

After the overturn of Roe V. Wade in June, and a state-wide 15-week abortion ban effective July 1, local Planned Parenthood clinics are navigating ways to provide care.

Health workers are continuing to provide life-saving COVID-19 information and other health resources throughout the community of Immokalee.

Each year, hospitals and facilities across the country celebrate nurses and healthcare staff during the month of May. Photographer Lisette Morales visited NCH North Naples Hospital to photograph staff on the front lines of the coronavirus, where NCH medical professionals reflect on their profession—and mental state—during a pandemic.

Lee Health is asking the community to make blood donations because its O positive blood inventory is low.Lee Health’s blood center supervisor Jeremy…

The rate of uninsured children in Florida and across the nation is on the rise. A new report from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s…