A physician and the owner of several pain clinics are facing trial in February on federal charges that they doled out pain pills to drug addicts and cheated Medicare out of more than $200,000. ...more

December 1, 2009

A new state law designed mainly to crack down on Medicaid fraud is having unexpected consequences by keeping some health care professionals from getting or keeping their licenses at a time when the state is suffering a shortage. ...more

October 31, 2009

Q. As a health care worker in a small office in Pasco County, where and when can our staff receive H1N1 vaccine? ...more

October 27, 2009

There's a lot of information circulating about swine flu, especially now that vaccinations have begun in the Bay area. ...more

October 25, 2009

Florida health officials said this morning that state laboratories testing samples for swine flu have sent three suspected samples to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The samples came from cases in Broward, Lee and Orange counties, they said. ...more

April 30, 2009

The Florida Senate wants to slow down what it sees as rampant abuse of prescription drugs. ...more

April 24, 2009

The Florida Board of Medicine has unanimously voted to revoke the medical license of a doctor involved in a botched abortion. ...more

February 7, 2009

The Florida Board of Medicine this morning unanimously voted to revoke the medical license of a doctor involved in a botched abortion. ...more

February 6, 2009

Funding for a pro-abstinence, anti-abortion program would disappear under a plan advancing in the Senate. ...more

January 7, 2009

Funding for a pro-abstinence, anti-abortion program would disappear under a plan advancing in the Senate. Nan Rich, vice-chairwoman of the Senate Health Appropriations panel, is pushing to eliminate all $600,000 remaining in this year's budget for an abstinence-only education and crisis pregnancy program that counsels women about abortion alternatives. ...more

January 6, 2009