The leading cause of disability and death in the United States is chronic disease. Heart disease and diabetes lead the list. About 133 million Americans live with at least one chronic disease and more than one in 10 have three or more. Your humble author is well acquainted with these numbers in so far as 18 months ago I received a new lease on life, a liver in an 8-hour transplant surgery. The costs are staggering. Chronic disease accounts for 75 percent of the more than $2 trillion spent on health care each year. Coronary heart disease alone, which afflicts 16.8 million Americans, costs some $165 billion a year. ...more

December 27, 2009

The leading cause of disability and death in the United States is chronic disease. Heart disease and diabetes lead the list. ...more

December 27, 2009

On the streets of Fallujah, Al Miller was the closest thing his fellow Marines had to a family physician. ...more

November 15, 2009

I have been in management at Premier Community HealthCare Group for about four years, and each day I hear about the devastating effects that being uninsured has on the well-being of people in our community. As the economy worsens and more and more Americans lose their jobs, the number of uninsured is soaring. ...more

March 28, 2009

It's not too late to get a flu shot, a Pasco County Health Department official said. ...more

February 14, 2009

It's not too late to get a flu shot, a Pasco County Health Department official said. The flu season has been relatively mild so far in Florida, but is expected to increase in the weeks ahead, according to Deanna Krautner, health education and communications coordinator for the agency. ...more

February 14, 2009

Officials in Tarpon Springs warned residents living between Riverside Park and the Kreamer Bayou to boil all water used for drinking or cooking for one minute, or to use bottled water. ...more

October 19, 2008

Officials in Tarpon Springs this morning warned residents living between Riverside Park and the Kreamer Bayou to boil all water used for drinking or cooking for one minute, or to use bottled water. ...more

October 18, 2008

Feeling nickel-and-dimed to death at the grocery store? ...more

October 4, 2008

With sauna-like summer days lingering on, people might not be focused yet on the fall flu season. ...more

September 28, 2008