TALLAHASSEE (AP) — An act expanding insurance coverage for kidney transplants that's named for retired Miami Heat basketball star Alonzo Mourning is among 28 new laws going into effect. ...more

September 30, 2009

The feelings came back as if it had happened yesterday. My hands and voice shook as I remembered. I was attending a lecture on advance directives offered by Tampa General Hospital through the Community Church College. Thirteen years evaporated as I listened to the lecturer describe planning for the end of life. ...more

December 24, 2008

HUNTER'S GREEN - Amanda Louise Martin, whose murder-mystery became the talk of the neighborhood, died June 19 of complications from lupus. ...more

June 28, 2008

HUNTER'S GREEN - Amanda Louise Martin, whose murder-mystery became the talk of the neighborhood, died June 19 of complications from lupus. Martin, 36, published her first book, "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," in November. Diagnosed at age 17, Martin had end-stage renal disease and wrote the manuscript for "Beautiful Day" in longhand while hooked up to a home dialysis machine. ...more

June 23, 2008

One day after his transplant surgery, the Rev. Julius Wynn knew just where he was going to take his first walk. ...more

January 10, 2008

She got the call while at work on a Friday. "Are you sitting down?" the woman on the phone asked. ...more

January 6, 2008

Martha Kitchen was inspired to give a kidney to the Rev. Julius Wynn, who has renal disease. ...more

January 6, 2008

Toni Martin, 57, Tampa Height: 5-foot-2 Starting weight: 210 Current weight: 124 ...more

October 11, 2007