May 18, 2024
Healthcare
Florida's Economy: How Bad Is It?
Florida is hurting: A regional look at the rough patches and bright spots.
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Published on 11/1/2008
Bouncing Back from a Sports Injury
The prospect of tearing your rotator cuff becomes more likely as you age. For athletes, it can be the kiss of death. But now the science has advanced to speed recovery.
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Published on 10/1/2008
Realignment for Alzheimer Research
From its inception, the Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer’s Center & Research Institute carried heavy political baggage.
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Published on 10/1/2008
New Exercise Equipment to Want
Online fitness equipment retailer Smooth Fitness, based in Pennsylvania, says Florida is one of its stronger states thanks to the number of Baby Boomers, retirees and second-home owners.
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Published on 10/1/2008
A Nip, Tuck That's Less Intrusive
Miami plastic surgeon Alan Serure says people are taking a more proactive role today in fighting the effects of aging.
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Published on 10/1/2008
What the Doctor Ordered in Pensacola?
For 10 years, Al Stubblefield, president and CEO of Baptist Health Care of Pensacola, has been trying to buy West Florida Hospital from Hospital Corporation of America.
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Published on 9/1/2008
The Makings of a Medical City
A “medical city” in southeast Orlando will include a cluster of facilities for research, education, treatment and commerce. The site is part of the 7,000-acre Lake Nona development.
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Published on 9/1/2008
Healthcare Construction Is Bright Spot
Throughout Florida, healthcare is one of the strongest growth sectors.
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Published on 8/1/2008
Reconstructive Surgery Advances
New procedures are making surgery less intrusive.
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Published on 8/1/2008
Fraud Inc.
White-collar crime is big business in Florida, generating more money than manufacturing. Medicare fraud alone adds an estimated $12 billion to the state's economy.
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Published on 7/1/2008
FSU, Mayo Clinic Collaborate On Diseases
Their mutual work on cancer and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s has prompted Florida State University and Mayo Clinic Florida to team up.
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Published on 7/1/2008
It's Now Easier to Erase Tattoos
Improving laser technology and new, easier-to-erase inks make tattoo removal less time-consuming -- and expensive.
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Published on 7/1/2008
Yoga Retreats in Florida
From the beaches of South Walton to the posh grounds of Amelia Island Plantation, there are yoga teachers who can make yoga the core of a Florida vacation or weekend getaways.
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Published on 6/1/2008
Health Insurance
Affordability is a key issue for owners and workers.
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Published on 5/26/2008
No Cure Yet for Sleepiness
For now, sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome struggle to ease the symptoms.
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Published on 5/1/2008
Popping Pills
For hospital patients in pain, the time spent waiting for a prescription pain pill can be agony. But at a few Florida hospitals, patients have more control over pain management with a bedside table-device.
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Published on 5/1/2008
What's Mike Fernandez's Encore?
Mike Fernandez's healthcare companies have returned an average 133% a year over the last 15 years.
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Published on 5/1/2008
Virtual Doctors
Doctors at Orlando Regional Medical Center are using a robot to fill in for them at patients’ bedsides in the intensive-care unit.
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Published on 5/1/2008
Trauma in ER
During separate periods — a total of 10 days between mid-February and early March — St. Petersburg’s Bayfront Medical Center had to stop taking trauma patients because it didn’t have a neurosurgeon available.
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Published on 5/1/2008
When Occasional Cocaine Use Becomes Serious
Read about one man's struggles with cocaine addiction. Millions of other Americans are at risk of falling into the same vicious cycle.
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Published on 5/1/2008
Society's Knee-Jerk Inclination for Prescribed Drugs
We Americans don’t like to hurt. And we’re wealthy enough as a society not to have to. When we’re in pain, whether emotional or physical, we’re conditioned to “take something for it.”
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Published on 4/1/2008
No Run-of-the Mill Feat in Marathon
Joyce Evans decides to give her boss a run for his money.
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Published on 4/1/2008
New Treatment Offers Hope in Macular Degeneration
Deterioration of the macula caused by either age or disease is the world’s most common cause of blindness.
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Published on 3/1/2008
Florida Hospital Plans to Build 'Health Village'
As they prepare to open a $255-million, 15-story hospital tower later this year in the Lake Ivanhoe area, Florida Hospital officials want to build a “health village” surrounding it.
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Published on 3/1/2008
FIU's New Med School Partners with Medical Centers
Under one agreement, Miami Beach-based Mount Sinai Medical Center will provide training for FIU medical students.
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Published on 3/1/2008
