Health

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio says he didn’t mention the group in promotional materials because he thinks his affiliation is irrelevant.

If you’re squeamish about mucus membranes, stop reading now.

Sanchez’s walks have been a chance to get a fresh perspective on how weird and wonderful his neighborhood is.

The team has a league-high 14 draft picks, including three first-round picks, the first of which is expected to be the Fins’ quarterback of the future.

As coronavirus threatens public health, South Florida’s libraries have been shuttered, forcing library staff to find ways to reach patrons virtually.

The officers’ actions appear to be out of step with federal guidelines.

Drive-thru COVID-19 testing centers are opening across Miami-Dade and Broward as test supplies become available.

The five groups say Florida’s vote-by-mail deadlines for the primary should be extended to March 27.

Several immigrants are being held in a special ward and have been barred from receiving visitors and eating with other detainees.

In Florida, an estimated 1.6 million people would lose their health coverage if the latest U.S. Supreme Court ACA challenge is successful.

Jenelle Butler says she was left debilitated — unable to drive a car, bathe normally, sit on the toilet, or lift her children.

The voice on the other end of the line sounded so thin, so frail, that at first Erika Williams didn’t recognize it as her son’s. It was only by the ten digits glowing on her iPhone — the number for the Flagler County jail — that she realized who was calling her February 4, 2019, a balmy Monday in North Florida.

The court battle over Florida’s abortion waiting period has been ongoing since state legislators passed House Bill 633 in 2015, requiring women to wait 24 hours after meeting with their doctor before having an abortion.

Summer officially began less than a week ago, but temperatures in South Florida are already somewhere between oppressively smothering and absolutely boiling. Yesterday, the high reached 98 degrees, a record for Miami for that date.

While the Democratic party’s left flank is pushing lawmakers to extend Medicare to all citizens and/or create a “single-payer” healthcare system similar to what exists in every other developed nation on earth, many Florida Republicans are still coming up with new ways to chip away at health-care access in the Sunshine…

With more medical marijuana patients and doctors than ever, demand is soaring for cannabis products in the state of Florida. With a newly-appointed cannabis director and agricultural commissioner Nikki Fried prioritizing better patient access to medical weed, it’s only a matter of time before marijuana products are freely available to those who need it, whenever they need it.

Last week, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried — the only Democrat elected statewide in the 2018 midterms — shook up her 4,000-employee agency by appointing Holly Bell the state’s first-ever cannabis director. While Fried campaigned on a promise to increase medical marijuana access, both she and the new…

Unable to afford her employer’s health insurance on her salary, Sandra Smith woke up from her coma to find that she had not been covered by a policy at the time. As of today, Smith still reportedly owes over $100,000 in hospital bills. But the airport worker makes $13.98 an hour, so there’s little hope she’ll ever pay off that debt.

Florida currently ranks 45th of the 50 states when it comes to the number of residents living without health insurance. It’s 48th in health performance Now the Trump administration yesterday agreed to cut Medicaid benefits. The weird rationale: to see if that “helps” people sign up for Medicaid. The logic is…

Jackie Rosen lost her only child to suicide in 1986. Mitch Rosen was just 24 years old. 32 years later, Rosen has funneled her grief into the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention Inc., or FISP. She serves as the Executive Director/CEO and one of the founding members of the nonprofit devoted to preventing suicide through education and resource. The group’s latest venture is signing onto Broward County’s League of Women Voters’ nonpartisan gun safety campaign: Lock It Up!

Fort Lauderdale joins about 250 other cities, counties, and states that have filed lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors for igniting the opioid crisis. Earlier this year, in April, Miami filed a civil lawsuit against Purdue Pharma and others in Miami-Dade County Court. Broward and Palm Beach Counties have sued as well.

Earlier this week, the FDA launched a new anti-vaping campaign aimed at minors, following last week’s statement in which the federal agency classified the underage use of electronic cigarettes to have reached levels of “epic proportions.” The trend is affecting Broward County students.