Here are some basic facts about lead poisoning. ...more

December 9, 2007

Pallavi Patel, who helped build the University of South Florida Charter School for Underprivileged Children in Hillsborough County, is among the newest members of the Florida Women's Hall of Fame. ...more

December 7, 2007

It took the better part of a year for Chante Douglass to understand the Children's Village was different. ...more

November 21, 2007

Over the past several months millions of toys have been recalled because of dangerous levels of lead. The concern over these products is real. As attention on the toy recalls grows, Floridians need to know that there are many things you can do to prevent lead poisoning. ...more

October 26, 2007

First came a committee to advise Hillsborough County school officials on health issues. ...more

October 26, 2007

The number of whooping cough cases in the United States has been creeping up, and that has health experts such as Tampa pediatrician Philip Adler concerned. He had whooping cough as a child and remembers how miserable it made him feel. He also remembers the time when hundreds of kids in his small Connecticut town who had whooping cough were rounded up and walked down to the local gas works. "They had us march around [and] breathe deeply, the methane gas seeping out of the gas works," Adler says. Town health officials hoped it would be therapeutic in some way. "They didn't know what to do about it, so they gassed us." ...more

October 18, 2007

SEBRING — Pharmacies nationwide scrambled to remove over the counter cough and cold medicines marketed exclusively for children from store shelves, and a local pediatrician supported their decision. ...more

October 14, 2007

SEBRING — As far as doctors go, Dr. Raymond Veras does not get out much. He spends his work hours mostly inside Florida Hospital, checking on the more ill children and infants, some of them hospital-bound. Like him. The pediatric hospitalist is a new breed of doctor in the area. Hired two months ago, he is the first pediatrician to not only visit Florida Hospital or to refer the sick children there, he also stays there, he says. Along with Dr. Cathy Lee and Dr. Ronald Fronda, who switch back and forth between the hospitals in Lake Placid and Sebring, the three from Florida Hospital and two others from Highlands Regional Medical Center are doing what several hospitals across the country began doing 11 years ago. With outside doctors getting slammed with patients and other patients being too sick for a simple office visit, both Florida Hospital and Highlands Regional Medical Center began hospitalist programs less than a year ago. ...more

September 23, 2007

My 2-year-old has had four ear infections this past year. The most recent one lingered, even though we bombarded it with antibiotics. My pediatrician finally decided to send me to an otolaryngologist to see about getting tubes in her ears. ...more

September 6, 2007