Health

In Florida, an estimated 1.6 million people would lose their health coverage if the latest U.S. Supreme Court ACA challenge is successful.

Galvin says the rhetoric surrounding coronavirus has reminded him of the 1980s panic about AIDS.

South Florida has experienced several scary maladies.

Although no cases of the virus have been reported in Miami, the local Chinese Cultural Foundation has preemptively canceled a Chinese New Year festival.

Although all passengers are expected to be screened, MIA says travelers shouldn’t be concerned about delays.

Jenelle Butler says she was left debilitated — unable to drive a car, bathe normally, sit on the toilet, or lift her children.

Ketamine can induce a feeling described as an out-of-body experience.

Snapchat apparently had a boner to pick with Dr. Michael Salzhauer, better known as Dr. Miami, a plastic surgeon who regularly broadcasts his procedures on the social media platform.

The court battle over Florida’s abortion waiting period has been ongoing ever since state legislators passed House Bill 633 in 2015, requiring women to wait 24 hours after meeting with their doctor before having an abortion.

New HIV cases are on the decline nationwide — except for the Southeast. Nearly half of all HIV cases are now in minority communities in Southern states, and Miami’s rate of HIV infection is nearly four times that of the U.S. average.

Summer officially began less than a week ago, but temperatures in South Florida are already somewhere between oppressively smothering and absolutely boiling. Yesterday, the high reached 98 degrees, a record for Miami for that date.

Lewis Masotti loved playing golf. He has competed at a professional level for many years, participated in charity games, and even lived on the Madison Greens golf course in Royal Palm Beach for 18 years. But after a cruise vacation gone wrong, the 85-year-old might never pick up a putter again.

Failing to retain its state contract for South Florida’s foster-care services, the Miami-based nonprofit Our Kids will lay off its entire staff — most of whom will find work with new provider Citrus Health.

A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas warns that Miami-Dade County is at high risk for a measles outbreak. Analysts ranked every county in the United States — and, according to the data, Dade has the third-highest risk in the country.

While the Democratic party’s left flank is pushing lawmakers to extend Medicare to all citizens and/or create a “single-payer” healthcare system similar to what exists in every other developed nation on earth, many Florida Republicans are still coming up with new ways to chip away at health-care access in the Sunshine…

Last week, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried — the only Democrat elected statewide in the 2018 midterms — shook up her 4,000-employee agency by appointing Holly Bell the state’s first-ever cannabis director. While Fried campaigned on a promise to increase medical marijuana access, both she and the new…

When 31-year-old Choeun Nuon awoke in the emergency room of Palmetto General Hospital, she remembers hearing the nurses and doctors shouting out her condition: “She’s bleeding! More blood, more blood!”

Among the general population, less than 1 percent of Americans are HIV positive. But for transgender women, the rate is astonishingly higher — almost 22 percent, or more than one in five. No one knows exactly why. Now, researchers at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine are looking…

Florida currently ranks 45th of the 50 states when it comes to the number of residents living without health insurance. It’s 48th in health performance Now the Trump administration yesterday agreed to cut Medicaid benefits. The weird rationale: to see if that “helps” people sign up for Medicaid. The logic is…

Transgender activist Rajee Narinesingh still remembers the doctor’s office where the staff “busted out in laughter” after they thought she was out of earshot. “They handed me the clipboard with the form that I needed to fill out and they closed the window back, and then all I heard was this laughter,” Narinesingh says.

Florida Republicans are using an utterly debunked study to try to slam Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum’s support for a federal, Medicare-for-All-style health-care plan. And because the study has been thoroughly torn apart, it’s pretty fair to assume the GOP is lying to smear Gillum.

Last June, Juan Rivero’s family moved him to Victoria Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a highly rated nursing home in Little Havana. At 80 years old, Rivero had severe dementia, renal disease, and acute respiratory problems requiring oxygen treatment. His son Cecilio wanted to make sure Rivero would be given the proper care and attention.