Tag: HEALTH
Review: Stay Fighting Fit With ROOQ
Yet, a new device offers to solve problems for pros and help amateur boxers to add an even more important analysis, recording, and tracking to their unique training schedules.
Doctors In Florida To Remove 10-Pound Tumor From Boy’s Face
MIAMI (AP) — Doctors in Florida are planning to remove a 10-pound tumor from a Cuban teen’s face.
Federal Judge Orders Florida To Treat Sick Inmates
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida may have to pay millions to treat as many as 20,000 inmates after a federal judge ruled state prison officials failed to properly care for felons infected with the hepatitis C virus.
FDA Approves First Digital Ingestion Tracking System Med
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug in the United States with a digital ingestion tracking system, in an unprecedented move to ensure that patients with mental illness take the medicine prescribed for them.
Health Care Enrollment Counselors Facing Stiff Challenges
MIAMI (AP) — It’s not easy being an advocate for the Affordable Care Act right now.
Health care advocacy groups are making an against-all-odds effort...
Florida Boy Hopes To Help Find Cure For Diabetes
BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — Noah Barnes has already taken something like 9 million steps so it’s hardly surprising the 11-year-old ignores the puddle his boot has just splashed through.
FDA Approves Better Vaccine Against Painful Shingles Virus
U.S. regulators have approved a new, more effective vaccine to prevent painful shingles, which is caused by the chickenpox virus.
Florida Legislature Looks At Combating Opioid Epidemic
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Despite having spent years investigating drug crimes and slayings in Philadelphia, a Florida sheriff told a state Senate committee on Tuesday that he hasn’t seen anything like the current opioid epidemic in Florida.
Experts: Herd Immunity Outside US Slows Zika In Florida
MIAMI (AP) — The waning of Zika outbreaks in the Caribbean and South America has helped slow the spread of the mosquito-borne virus in Florida this year, according to health officials.
Plane Returns To Airport After 3 Flight Attendants Get Sick
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a flight heading toward Barbados has returned to a Florida airport because three flight attendants were sick.
