Family planning is a combination of services provided to our community through the Highlands County Health Department. ...more

July 10, 2008

It pains 13-year nursing veteran Roselily Story to tell patients she's doing everything she can when she knows their health insurance won't let her. ...more

July 9, 2008

The Florida Consumer Action Network and members of Planned Parenthood, the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now, the West Central Florida Federation of Labor and Service Employees International Union launch a local push for affordable health care. ...more

July 8, 2008

Not long ago, it looked as if Morton Plant Mease North Bay Hospital was going to be left holding the short stick. Both it and Community Hospital of New Port Richey wanted to leave their longtime homes in New Port Richey for the booming Trinity area of southwestern Pasco County. State regulators approved the Community Hospital move but said no to North Bay. At the time, Trinity seemed to have unlimited growth potential, thanks to its rural atmosphere but proximity to jobs in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. It was definitely seen as the place to be. ...more

June 28, 2008

Finally, an accelerating trend in health care insurance that's good news for many parents. ...more

June 22, 2008

Alternative energy sources, energy conservation, a national health care system and the national debt were among the issues U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam addressed Thursday during a town hall meeting at Florida College. ...more

June 4, 2008

Hardly anyone would question the need for at least some reform in the nation's entire health care system... ...more

June 2, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - Alternative energy sources, energy conservation, a national health care system and the national debt were among the issues U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam addressed Thursday during a town hall meeting at Florida College. "We have to get off fossil fuels for the future," said Putnam, R-Bartow, who discussed building nuclear plants and investing in clean coal energy while focusing on using today's resources wisely. Putnam, whose district covers portions of Hillsborough, Polk and Osceola counties and includes cities such as Temple Terrace, Lakeland, Bartow and Winter Haven, said health care is a hot topic, especially among the Democratic candidates in this year's presidential campaign. ...more

May 30, 2008

Tampa ophthalmologist Steven Maskin learned something when he started offering free seminars on dry eye. ...more

February 22, 2008

Upon your arrival home after a day at work, your teenage daughter informs you she has a sore throat and a fever. ...more

February 18, 2008