Wednesday's Daily Pulse

› Hollywood: A growing hub for healthcare innovation [South Florida Business Journal]
A clinical trial for an innovative bioelectronic device to treat patients with rheumatoid arthritis is now underway at Memorial Healthcare System headquartered in Hollywood.

› Feds charge Pembroke Park marine engineering firm with submitting $375,062 fraudulent invoice [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]
A Pembroke Park marine engineering firm has been charged in federal criminal court with submitting a “materially false, fictitious and fraudulent” invoice in 2015 for $375,062 while it was contracted to replace channel marker range lights for the U.S. Coast Guard.

› St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport boasts record August with 14 percent increase in passenger traffic [Tampa Bay Times]
St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport on Monday announced its biggest August in history, with 178,962 passengers, 14 percent more than 2017. So far this year, the airport has seen 1,585,711 passengers.

› Recreational fishing, boating community applauds Florida longline permit decision [Boating Industry]
The recreational fishing and boating community is applauding a recent decision by the National Marine Fisheries Service to deny an Exempted Fishing Permit that would have allowed pelagic longline vessels into the East Florida Coast Pelagic Longline Closed Area.

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