As families and friends open their homes to loved ones over Christmas and New Year's, area emergency rooms are opening their doors to those suffering from physical and emotional problems brought on by the holiday season. ...more

December 24, 2009

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The number of children killed or injured by falling television sets appears to have risen even as more consumers replace their clunky old TVs with lighter flat screens, studies suggest. ...more

December 14, 2009

Health department cancels Friday walk-in clinic services SPRING HILL - The Hernando County Health Department will no longer offer "walk-in" primary care services on Fridays beginning Dec. 11 at its Spring Hill clinic location. ...more

December 5, 2009

The FloridaHealthFinder.gov Web site has been redesigned, and a new hospice comparison tool has been added. ...more

May 23, 2009

Rep. Ed Homan of Tampa rolled out a plan Wednesday that he said would expand Florida's thinning ranks of doctors while improving care of local Medicaid patients. ...more

April 2, 2009

Here are a couple more letters on your experiences in Florida emergency rooms. Everyone seems to have his or her own tale. Instead of publishing more of them I'd prefer to hear possible solutions such as patient representatives to local urgent care centers. ...more

February 17, 2009

Hijacked At The Pump If big oil can't make it on crude oil, they make it on refining. The last time oil hit a low of $34 a barrel we paid $1.59 a gallon for regular. Now we're hijacked at the pump at $1.93. Part of the stimulus package should be an excess profit tax on big oil to finance infrastructure. ...more

February 17, 2009

This week you told me about your experiences in waiting rooms at Tampa Bay area hospitals in response to a column about a personal experience with an 87-year-old woman. You wrote me about what I think is every hospital in the region, from Sebring to Ocala. ...more

February 10, 2009

It's doubtless a no-brainer to say that probably every reader has a nightmare story to tell when it comes to medical insurance. ...more

January 21, 2009

A sobering report released earlier this month by a blue-ribbon panel of emergency physicians concludes the country's emergency care system is in serious condition and under more stress than ever before. ...more

December 26, 2008