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A House health care panel on Tuesday approved a bill backing “direct primary care” contracts that would allow physicians to bill patients and collect...

An administrative law judge said Tuesday that the Florida Department of Health should approve a proposal to open a pediatric trauma center at Wolfson...

State lawmakers are advancing a bill to create a statewide board to oversee Florida’s 28 state and community colleges.The schools are now under the State…

A day after the fourth slaying in Tampa's Seminole Heights neighborhood, police released new video of someone they are now calling a suspect.Tampa Police…

Dr. Ronald Cirillo and his assistant at the Turning Points free clinic in Bradenton are testing another patient for hepatitis C.

Let’s say you have health insurance through your employer and live in one of 21 states with laws protecting consumers against surprise medical bills...

The Food and Drug Administration last month sent criminal investigation agents with search warrants into nine storefronts across Central Florida that...

Florida has reported its second case of the Zika virus via local mosquitos.

Almost eight years after an earthquake destroyed their country – and prompted the U.S. to let them stay in this country protected from deportation –...

With only one committee hearing, a bill seeking to regulate Florida’s pregnancy crisis centers is now heading to the House floor. But, pro-choice...

A Tampa restaurateur is trying to ensure that no one in Tampa Bay goes without a place to have a Thanksgiving meal.Ergin Tek, owner of Gengiz Khan…

This year is six weeks shorter than last year. Not on the calendar, or course, but there are six fewer weeks this year for people getting their health...

The Trump administration’s decision to end temporary protected status for Haitians who sought shelter in the US after a major earthquake is drawing...

More than two months after Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico, thousands are still fleeing the island and many are coming to Florida.This week on…

A storm system moving across Florida Thanksgiving Day might seem like a tropical storm to some.Relentless rain and gusty winds are expected from the…

Just three states hold elections for local school superintendents and Florida is one of them. But a proposed constitutional amendment could change things.…

Some Seminole Heights business owners are expecting a record holiday shopping season in spite of the recent series of murders in the neighborhood.They…

Nearly 500,000 Floridians signed up for an Affordable Care Act plan in the first three weeks of enrollment.

Vaping could be banned in workplaces, and nursing-home and assisted-living facility residents could be guaranteed certain rights — including the ability...

Edie J. Banner is an organic chemistry instructor at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.While most of the school’s teaching laboratories are…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a challenge to a Florida law that bars people from openly carrying firearms in public, ending a case...

TALLAHASSEE - The state of Florida has paid more than $11 million over a 30-year period to settle hundreds of cases that alleged that state workers were...

As Hurricane Irma churned through South Florida, Patrick O'Quinn felt trapped. He'd moved to Miami about three months before the storm and described...

A mosquito control worker was found dead, face-down in a Pinellas County creek where he had been sent to conduct tests.The Tampa Bay Times reports a park…

The Executive Director of Florida’s wildlife agency is leaving. He’s the latest to step down from a top role at the Florida Fish and Wildlife...