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Medicine

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Rape Victim Sees Doctor, Loses Health Insurance

    flickr.comRape? Sounds like a pre-existing condition to insurance companies.​Christina Turner, a 45-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman, was downtown, letting men at the bar by her drinks. The next thing she remembers is waking up on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she may have been rap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2009

    In Honor of Tim Tebow: 10 Great Football Careers Ended By Concussions

    flickr.com No pressure, Tim, it's only your brain. ​Though the University of Florida and coach Urban Meyer have been nothing but careful with their words, I don't think there was ever really a doubt that Tim Tebow would play in tonight's big game against LSU. This, just two weeks rem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Attacking Swine Flu Before It Attacks Us

    Flickr: dabby1This fellow hopes to get in your bloodstream before the vaccine.​The past few months, this blog and Broward Health have had a strained relationship, to put it mildly; but hey, global pandemics make for strange bed partners. Juice is glad to report that the north county's $1 billion p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Ohmygod Grandma Do Not Rap When the NY Times Reporter Is Around!

    nytimes.comArtificial hip-hop and health care hysteria: all the rage at Sunrise Lakes​They've still working do on destroying Obama's health care plan but in the opening moments of this New York Times video,  Sunrise seniors dealt a death blow to hip-hop. Chilling video here.The accompanying a ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 16, 2009

    Political Poontang

    Or: How a gay man in a spasm of helpless terror reacts to The Vagina Monologues

  • News

    March 5, 2009

    Death by Silicone

    She served time for illegally performing plastic surgery. Now Donnie Hendrix tells her tale

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    For Those Who Need a Good Cry

    St. Petersburg TimesBrian Jenkins, from West Palm, and Samantha Peterson, of Citrus CountyWell, here's a story that pretty much restores one's faith in mankind. It's the story of two cystic fibrosis patients at opposite sides of Florida trying to make a go at love -- despite the fact they were each ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Is Big Tobacco Using Healthy Start to Do Its Dirty Work?

    Like many nonprofits that depend on government funding, the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions is facing cuts. The organization that focuses on prenatal and infant health may have 22 percent trimmed from its 2009 budget.  Unlike other nonprofits, however, the organization has propo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2008

    Aug. 1 Yes Concert Scheduled for Hard Rock Live is Cancelled

    Like many nonprofits that depend on government funding, the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions is facing cuts. The organization that focuses on prenatal and infant health may have 22 percent trimmed from its 2009 budget.  Unlike other nonprofits, however, the organization has propo ... More >>

  • Music

    May 29, 2008

    Yo Ho Ho

    Watch out, hip-hoppers: Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew are pillaging for beats

  • Music

    April 3, 2008

    Dengue Fever

    Singer Chhom Nimol makes Dengue Fever worthwhile.

  • News

    March 20, 2008

    Letters for March 20-26, 2008

    Singer Chhom Nimol makes Dengue Fever worthwhile.

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2007

    Sticker Shock: DeGroot Breaks Down Hospital Prices

    Singer Chhom Nimol makes Dengue Fever worthwhile.

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2007

    Former Hollywood Chief Diagnosed With Lung Cancer

    Singer Chhom Nimol makes Dengue Fever worthwhile.

  • Home Entertainment

    January 25, 2007

    Dr. Feelgood

    You're not a doctor, but Trauma Center lets you play one on TV.

  • News

    December 7, 2006

    Sex and the Single Sperm

    FAU's wild Darwinians are at it again. And this time, they want to measure your nutsack.

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    Well Hung

    To bead or not to bead, that is the question.

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    Invitation to a Stomping

    On the low-end neck-breaking circuit, only God and America are bigger than bull riding. Just barely.

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2005

    WHEEL L_VE

    On the low-end neck-breaking circuit, only God and America are bigger than bull riding. Just barely.

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    Letters for November 3-9, 2005

    On the low-end neck-breaking circuit, only God and America are bigger than bull riding. Just barely.

  • Culture

    October 20, 2005

    Agitation Nation

    Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart brings back a time of acting up

  • Calendar

    October 13, 2005

    Born to Choose

    Planned Parenthood benefit rocks Respectable Street

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2005

    Drinker with a Standup Problem

    Planned Parenthood benefit rocks Respectable Street

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2004

    Hot, Bothered

    Planned Parenthood benefit rocks Respectable Street

  • News

    June 17, 2004

    Letters for June 17-23, 2004

    Planned Parenthood benefit rocks Respectable Street

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    All the Governor's Men

    A sweetheart hospital district deal could land Jeb Bush in front of a grand jury

  • News

    August 21, 2003

    Dying to Be Thin

    Like other "super morbidly obese" people, Marc Patterson would do almost anything to slim down

  • News

    January 10, 2002

    Drug Holiday

    Once a leading gay activist, CenterOne cofounder Gary Steinsmith has fallen on hard times

  • Calendar

    September 20, 2001

    Pork Fest 2001

    The Second Annual Kiss-a-Pig Kick-Off

  • Calendar

    May 31, 2001

    Envy Much?

    The Penis' Responses to the Vagina Monologues

  • Best of BPB

    May 17, 2001

    Best Political Activist

    Vivian Burch

  • Music

    February 22, 2001

    Bandwidth

    The much-maligned gothsters of Death Becomes You come face to face with real, live death

  • Calendar

    November 16, 2000

    Culture For a Cause

    "The One Million Dollar Art Show"

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Smear Campaign

    Decades after the death of a great doctor, a pair of jet setters claims his legacy

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Let Me Kill Myself

    Before he dies of Lou Gehrig's disease, Phil Snaith wants to accomplish one final goal: force the state to allow assisted suicides

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    No Exit

    In South Florida the new killing fields are filled with sick, depressed senior citizens who make self-inflicted death their final ally

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    Some Safety Net

    All Vicky Lynch wants is to get her husband the neurological rehab he desperately needs. So what's the problem? Everything.

  • News

    June 17, 1999

    Letters

    All Vicky Lynch wants is to get her husband the neurological rehab he desperately needs. So what's the problem? Everything.

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    Letters

    All Vicky Lynch wants is to get her husband the neurological rehab he desperately needs. So what's the problem? Everything.

  • Calendar

    March 18, 1999

    Night & Day

    March 18 - 24, 1999

  • Best of BPB

    March 11, 1999

    Best Charity

    Poverello Center

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    The Straight Dope

    Poverello Center

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    The Straight Dope

    Poverello Center

  • News

    January 21, 1999

    The Straight Dope

    Poverello Center

  • News

    December 17, 1998

    An Epidemic of Apathy

    Local activists were hoping people would flock to see the AIDS Memorial Quilt. They didn't.

  • News

    August 13, 1998

    Cutting the Healing

    The emotional triage performed by therapists for the severely disabled is being eliminated by budget cutbacks

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    Enough to Make You Sick

    The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

  • News

    February 5, 1998

    The Straight Dope

    The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

  • Calendar

    February 5, 1998

    The Single-Minded Professor

    The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

  • News

    December 18, 1997

    The Straight Dope

    The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

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