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‘Medication Aides’ Get Florida Senate Backing
Source: TFP File Photo
Florida lawmakers continued moving forward Tuesday with a proposal allowing trained certified nursing assistants to give me [...]
Florida Senate Panel Backs 6-Week Abortion Limit
Florida Senate (TFP File Photo)
A proposal to prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy began moving forward Monday in the Florida Senate. Th [...]
Florida COVID-19 Deaths Climb Above 87,000
SOURCE: CDC
More than 87,000 Florida residents have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic started in 2020, according to newly released data from the [...]
Hillsborough County Kids And Teens In Crisis Can Receive Immediate Help With A Text Message
Source: TFP
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - During National Safe Place Week, March 20-26, Hillsborough County Children’s Services wants to remind kids [...]
The US Remains A Grim Leader In Preterm Births. Why? And Can We Fix It?
By Sarah Varney, A bed in the neonatal intensive care unit at Broward Health in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Far more American women deliver their babie [...]
Pasco County Shuts Down Well Water Source In Jasmine Lakes
Water (TFP File Photo)
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. - Pasco County Utilities has shut down an untreated groundwater well in the Jasmine Lakes community of N [...]
Tips To Take Care Of Your Families Health
TFP File Photo
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 [...]
Is It Possible To Reverse Common Hearing Loss
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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.
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Florida Marijuana License Decision Appealed
Source: UF/IFAS
After an administrative law judge last month upheld a decision by state health officials, a battle about a potentially lucrative m [...]
Montana Considers New Wave Of Legislation To Loosen Vaccination Rules
TFP File (CDC)
When Deb Horning’s youngest daughter was 5, she got her measles, mumps, and rubella shot like many other kindergartners. But unlike [...]