April 25, 2024
Healthcare
Florida ranks 7th as 'Worst State to Have a Baby' says WalletHub
With August being one of the most popular months for newborn arrival and Americans paying the highest birthing costs in the world, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2017's Best & Worst States to Have a Baby.
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Published on 8/14/2017
3-D Mapping
Three-dimensional mapping technology enables cardiologists to more safely treat abnormal heartbeats, one of the most common forms of cardiac problems.
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Published on 8/8/2017
Risk factors for heart disease
Non-controllable vs. controllable risks and stats
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Published on 8/8/2017
Cancer and cardiac care
The number of cancer survivors in the United States has grown as treatments have become more effective at battling the disease.
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Published on 8/8/2017
The disappearing stent
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last summer approved the first fully absorbable stent to treat artery disease...
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Published on 8/8/2017
Target: Heart Disease
In November 2016, the Florida Department of Health launched a pilot program aimed at implementing new prevention strategies in places deemed most at risk of heart disease.
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Published on 8/8/2017
Tiny pacemakers
Three years ago, an 81-year-old man became the first patient in Florida to receive the world's smallest pacemaker...
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Published on 8/8/2017
Florida Hospitals in Rankings
Tampa General Hospital, UF Health Shands Hospital, JFK Medical Center, Northwest Medical Center & Kendall Regional Medical Center
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Published on 8/8/2017
New heart hospital
UF Health is opening a specialty hospital in Gainesville focused on cardiac care.
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Published on 8/8/2017
Charity care
Billed as the only clinic of its kind in the state, Florida Hospital's Trina Hidalgo Heart Care Center in Orlando provides free care to uninsured people suffering from heart conditions
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Published on 8/8/2017
Children's hearts
The summer after his first year of med school, Dr. Jeffrey P. Jacobs took a job doing research for a pediatric heart surgeon in Miami. What he saw changed his life.
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Published on 8/8/2017
Statistically speaking
Results from a telephone poll of 1,002 U.S. adults (485 men and 517 women), with region, gender, age, race and ethnicity weighted to be nationally representative...
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Published on 8/8/2017
UF study raises questions about overmedicating young children diagnosed with ADHD
A University of Florida study is among the first to evaluate whether a child's age at the time of an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis influences treatment and raises numerous questions about why young children with ADHD are being heavily medicated.
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Published on 8/7/2017
Three U.S. airports to unveil American Heart Association Hands-Only CPR training kiosks
Interactive machine teaches lifesaving skill to travelers in five minutes
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Published on 8/1/2017
University of Miami Health System & Dolphins Announce Cornerstone Partnership at Hard Rock Stadium
The Miami Dolphins and UHealth – the University of Miami Health System announced a partnership that will see the local health system serve as the official health care provider of the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium. Through the partnership, UHealth will have the entitlement to the southeast corner of Hard Rock Stadium.
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Published on 8/1/2017
DOH-Okaloosa Honored for Excellence in Public Health
Local Health Department Program is One of 41 Nationwide to Receive a “Model Practice Award” in 2017
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Published on 8/1/2017
Doctors With Multiple Malpractice Settlements Face Little Discipline In Florida
Health News Florida looked at records of doctors with at least six malpractice complaints in Floria, from year 2000 to present.
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Published on 8/1/2017
Modernizing Medicine expands in Palm Beach County, plans to add 800 jobs
On Thursday, Governor Rick Scott announced that Modernizing Medicine plans to expand operations in the historic Boca Raton Innovation Center (BRIC) in Palm Beach County and will add a total of 838 jobs by 2022.
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Published on 7/28/2017
Gov. Scott Recognizes Statewide Zika Preparedness Efforts
Today, Governor Rick Scott gave opening remarks at the Florida Department of Health's (DOH) Zika Preparedness Planning Meeting in Miami. DOH hosted the meeting with county health departments and mosquito control districts from across the state, as well as CDC officials, to discuss ongoing efforts to prepare for and combat the Zika Virus.
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Published on 7/17/2017
National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges Against Over 412 Individuals Responsible for $1.3 Billion in Fraud Losses
Largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice History
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Published on 7/14/2017
Expert Comes Home to Lead Simulation Center
Jen Arnold, M.D., M.Sc., FAAP, is coming home. The nationally known pediatric expert in educational medical simulation joined Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in July as medical director of the hospital's expanding Simulation Center. She also will serve as a part-time assistant professor with Johns Hopkins University.
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Published on 7/11/2017
Florida Phasing Out Project AIDS Care, Other Medicaid Waivers
Thousands of Floridians living with AIDS could be losing financial assistance they say is essential to living a normal life, and some AIDS groups are worried the state won't carry through on its promises.
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Published on 7/7/2017
Hospitals Ramp Up Hyperbaric Therapy For Diabetics, Despite Concerns
Hyperbaric treatment, increasingly given to diabetics — many of them elderly with persistent wounds — involves breathing pure oxygen inside a pressurized air chamber typically for two hours each weekday, often for more than a month. Twenty outpatient sessions can bring a hospital $9,000 in revenue.
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Published on 7/3/2017
Zika outbreak in Wynwood stifled local economy
FIU researchers present first report documenting Zika's negative impact on popular Miami district
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Published on 6/28/2017
NYU Langone Extends Its Ambulatory Network to Southeast Florida
NYU Langone Introduces Two Outpatient Practices in Palm Beach County, Where Many of Its Patients Live
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Published on 6/27/2017
