In honor of September's Library Card Sign-Up Month, the Pasco County Library System is hosting Leaders Are Readers programs throughout the month. ...more

September 11, 2008

The Food and Drug Administration will begin posting every three months a list of drugs whose safety is under investigation because of complaints brought to the agency's attention by drug companies, physicians and patients. ...more

September 6, 2008

Have leftover medicine and don't know what to do with it? Well, don't leave it lying around. And certainly don't flush it. ...more

August 22, 2008

A lawsuit claims a woman still suffers the effects of an overdose after a pharmacy gave her the wrong dosage of her medicine. ...more

August 21, 2008

With a possible Category 1 hurricane trekking toward the Tampa Bay area, this is the time to get plans in place for Fido's safety, officials say. ...more

August 16, 2008

TAMPA - Marsh Meadows wanted her medications Monday morning, say Tampa police, so she dialed 911. ...more

July 15, 2008

A Miami-Dade County man has been charged with practicing medicine illegally at parties where women take shots of silicone to make their butts bigger. ...more

June 20, 2008

Why is it that when I'm sick I revert to being a child again? When I don't feel well, all I want is for my mama to come and bring me chicken soup and lay her cool hand on my forehead and tell me it's going to be all right. It doesn't matter that I'm a mother myself now and my mother is 80 years old. When I'm sick, in body or in spirit, no one can make it better like she can. I wonder. Do my children feel that way about me? They're adults now. They have lives of their own and "significant others" to comfort and cheer them. Maybe they really don't need me now. ...more

May 24, 2008

A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers. ...more

May 6, 2008

As one who has resided in three countries, and seeing how efficient social medicine and solar energy works, I relate some problems being faced today by America over foolish and unwise actions of greedy corporate Americans. ...more

February 23, 2008