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The market for gummies, powders and capsules containing extracts of the fungus is raising eyebrows, though, amid concerns from the FDA and in the absence of human clinical trials.
Software sifts through millions of medical records to match patients with similar diagnoses and characteristics and predicts what kind of care an individual will need. New rules will ensure humans are ...
There is no easy test or treatment for nontuberculosis mycobacteria, or NTM. It can be transmitted through the water supply, but little is known about exactly where it lurks.
Vulnerable and marginalized communities are getting left behind in dental deserts, where patient volume exceeds provider capacity or too few dentists are willing to serve the uninsured or those on ...
A new multibillion settlement in the case involving OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is expected to add more than $233 million to Florida’s legal recoveries to help stem the deadly opioid crisis. Members ...
"Being Michelle" is about a deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse. In this interview, members of the documentary's production team discuss her story and the larger issues it ...
Medicare and Medicaid pay “look-alike” health centers significantly more than hospitals for treating patients, and converting or creating clinics can help hospitals reduce their expenses.
The ACA designers might have assumed that they spelled out with sufficient clarity that millions would no longer have to pay for certain types of preventive care. But they didn’t reckon with America’s ...
The last place in the nation you’ll want to take a stroll: the Daytona Beach area, according to Smart Growth America’s "Dangerous by Design" report covering 2016 to 2020. Six other regions in Florida ...
Video counseling at school was never an option before the pandemic, but an analysis by AP has found the service is now so prevalent it exists in 16 of the 20 largest school districts, including ...
A Tampa Bay Times analysis of recently released USDA data shows that Publix overtook CVS to become the second-largest dispenser of opioids in Florida in 2019. The Lakeland-based company ramped up ...
Weeks after state health officials selected a Suwannee County man to receive a long-awaited medical marijuana license earmarked for a Black farmer, applicants who lost out on joining Florida’s growing ...