Mary Billman often relies on volunteer drivers to take her to and from chemotherapy treatments at her doctors' office in Tampa. ...more

July 2, 2008

It's a lot of money, $100,000. Gulfcoast Oncology Foundation, a Bay area charity for cancer patients, has been promised that sum - if it can raise enough money to match the donation. Director Jane Morse-Swett says the foundation is about halfway there. ...more

June 21, 2008

USF CAMPUS - Anybody could write a check, call "American Idol" or buy a song on iTunes and say they were doing something to help the 12 million children in Africa orphaned by AIDS. They would be right. The three University of South Florida students who founded By Your Side aren't just anybody. Amir Boules, Konstance Kasimos and Joanna Scian are honors students whose intelligence is equaled by their determination to make a difference in the world. They were so moved by the plight of Africa's AIDS orphans that they will travel to Tanzania in August to volunteer at orphanages and schools. ...more

June 13, 2008

Patches containing the prescription painkiller fentanyl were recalled Tuesday because of a flaw that could cause patients or caregivers to overdose on the potent drug inside. ...more

February 13, 2008

Octavia Stoppa compares her business, All About Beauty, to the fictional salon in a 1989 film where four girlfriends gather to gussie up and share their joys and heartaches. ...more

February 4, 2008

Tampa's H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute and the University of Florida announced a partnership Wednesday that will benefit Moffitt's efforts to build the world's largest cancer tissue databank. ...more

January 23, 2008

Facing terminal illness, we all should get to experience a no-costs-barred world tour to do everything we ever wanted. ...more

January 10, 2008

Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler. ...more

December 27, 2007

Improper use of patches that emit the painkiller fentanyl is still killing people, the government said Friday - its second warning in two years about the powerful narcotic. ...more

December 22, 2007

Uninsured cancer patients are nearly twice as likely to die within five years as those with private coverage, according to the first national study of its kind and one that sheds light on troubling health care obstacles. ...more

December 20, 2007