Health

Some observers see religious services, with so many people in close quarters, as potential incubators for the virus.

Arriola made a self-described bold proposal: that the city consider infecting its first responders with the novel coronavirus so they could develop antibodies.

Suarez earlier this week met with Brazilian government officials, one of whom later tested positive for the virus.

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Joe Martinez posted multiple photos of himself touching the elderly and shaking their hands.

Activists say immigrants waiting at the ICE office in Miramar could be unnecessarily exposed to the novel coronavirus.

A 56-year-old Miami-Dade man who traveled outside Florida has become the county’s first resident to contract COVID-19.

During an emergency coronavirus meeting, Martinez complained he’s sick of hearing about this darn virus already.

Several immigrants are being held in a special ward and have been barred from receiving visitors and eating with other detainees.

A Miami-Dade commissioner has asked Gov. Ron DeSantis to do everything in his power to make tests free or affordable to the public.

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.