For two decades — as opioid overdose deaths rose steadily — the federal government limited access to buprenorphine, a medication that addiction experts consider the gold standard for treating patients with opioid use disorder. Study after study shows it helps people continue addiction treatment while reducing the risk…
Read More Some Roadblocks To Lifesaving Addiction Treatment Are Gone. Now What?
Florida lawmakers continued moving forward Tuesday with a proposal allowing trained certified nursing assistants to give medications to nursing-home residents. The Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee unanimously approved the Senate version of the bill (SB 558), which sponsor Colleen Burton, R-Lakeland, said would…
Read More ‘Medication Aides’ Get Florida Senate Backing
A proposal to prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy began moving forward Monday in the Florida Senate. The Senate Health Policy Committee approved the measure (SB 300), after lengthy and often-emotional testimony and debate. A House version (HB 7) got an initial approval last…
Read More Florida Senate Panel Backs 6-Week Abortion Limit
More than 87,000 Florida residents have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic started in 2020, according to newly released data from the state Department of Health. The data, released Friday, showed the state had a reported 87,141 deaths as of Thursday. That was up from…
Read More Florida COVID-19 Deaths Climb Above 87,000
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – During National Safe Place Week, March 20-26, Hillsborough County Children’s Services wants to remind kids and teens that they can receive immediate help in a crisis. Safe Place is a national initiative locally managed by Hillsborough County Children’s Services that provides…
Read More Hillsborough County Kids And Teens In Crisis Can Receive Immediate Help With A Text Message
Tamara Etienne’s second pregnancy was freighted with risk and worry from its earliest days — exacerbated by a first pregnancy that had ended in miscarriage. A third-grade teacher at an overcrowded Miami-Dade County public school, she spent harried days on her feet. Financial worries weighed…
Read More The US Remains A Grim Leader In Preterm Births. Why? And Can We Fix It?
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – Pasco County Utilities has shut down an untreated groundwater well in the Jasmine Lakes community of New Port Richey following lab test results showing the presence of E. coli on March 15, 2023. The well was immediately shut off, and water…
Read More Pasco County Shuts Down Well Water Source In Jasmine Lakes
When it comes to your family, you want to be able to do what you can in order to keep them healthy. Their well-being is one of the most important things, and the more you can teach them and the wisdom you can impart with,…
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Hearing loss is likely to affect everyone at some point in their lives, but it is most common in people over the age of fifty. The most common types of hearing loss are sensorineural, conductive, and a mixture of them both. The most common solutions…
Read More Is It Possible To Reverse Common Hearing Loss
After an administrative law judge last month upheld a decision by state health officials, a battle about a potentially lucrative medical-marijuana license has gone to an appeals court. Heirs and partners of the late Moton Hopkins, a Marion County farmer and rancher, filed a notice…
Read More Florida Marijuana License Decision Appealed