Overview of buildings OLD: All Children's Hospital opened in 1927 with just 15 beds in an old fruit packing plant, according to Rick Baker's book "Mangroves to Major League." Called the American Legion Hospital for Crippled Children, its first mission was to fight polio. The hospital known today as All Children's opened south of downtown St. Petersburg in 1967. ...more

December 5, 2009

Plugging in amplifiers and tuning their instruments, the Lazzara family prepared to jam during a recent practice at Rock School. ...more

March 25, 2009

Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz. ...more

November 20, 2008

Turns out men and women really are different at heart: New research finds that heart transplant patients have better odds of survival and a lower risk of rejection if they get organs from donors of the same sex. ...more

November 13, 2008

Once upon a time, a Dade County educator thought it would be nice to introduce promising teenage science students to the world of medicine. ...more

May 2, 2008