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…
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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…
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When Deb Horning’s youngest daughter was 5, she got her measles, mumps, and rubella shot like many other kindergartners. But unlike many other moms, Horning had to stay away from her daughter for a week after the shot. Horning, 51, was diagnosed in 2014 with…
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With supporters saying it would help free up registered nurses to provide other needed care, a House panel on Thursday approved a proposal that would allow trained certified nursing assistants to give medications to nursing-home residents. The House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee unanimously backed the bill…
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A Florida House panel unanimously signed off on a proposal that would allow doctors to renew patients’ medical marijuana approvals using telehealth. Bill sponsor Spencer Roach, R-North Fort Myers, told the House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee that the bill (HB 387) would “treat this (medical marijuana)…
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SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. – Hillsborough County is the nation’s third-highest county for the pervasiveness of mental illness and 12th-highest for serious mental illness, according to Mental Health America and Tampabaythrives.org. Across the bridge, Pinellas County has historically suffered higher than the national rate for suicides,…
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PENSACOLA, Fla. – The state Agency for Health Care Administration issued a final order Tuesday revoking the license of a Pensacola abortion clinic. The order was filed in the state Division of Administrative Hearings after the agency and Integrity Medical Care, LLC, which does business…
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Controlled substances became a little less controlled during the pandemic. That benefited both patients (for their health) and telehealth startups (to make money). Some potentially addictive medications — like buprenorphine and Adderall — are now far more available online to patients because of regulatory changes.…
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In hindsight, Nikki Ruston said, she should have recognized the red flags. The office in Miami where she scheduled what’s known as a Brazilian butt lift had closed and transferred her records to a different facility, she said. The price she was quoted — and…
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