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  Family Says Elderly Man Died After Ambulance Company Dropped Him Off at Wrong House

  September 10 at 9:30 a.m.

  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.

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  Uninsured and Indigent Patients Cost Jackson Memorial Hospital $884 Million a Year

  September 6 at 8:30 a.m.

  At last count, 28.2 million Americans don't have health insurance. That staggering number doesn't include people who technically have insurance but are too cash-strapped to pay their deductibles, out-of-network charges, and copays. Thanks to the United States' inefficient and ultra-expensive health-care system, that means public hospitals are often on the hook when patients can't pay or insurance companies refuse to cover medical bills.

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  FIU Researchers Invent Machine That Can Detect Zika in 40 Minutes

  July 30 at 2:42 p.m.

  It's been two years since Miami's Summer of Zika, when everyone was freaked out about mosquitoes and your friends all canceled their trips to Florida. But although the public frenzy about the virus has since died down, dozens of Floridians are still being diagnosed with Zika. According to the Department of Health, at least 59 travel-related cases have been reported across the state so far this year.

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  Women Run Wynwood Creates an Empowering, Safe Space for Fitness in Miami

  July 25 at 9:26 a.m.

  If you're a man, you've probably never had to worry about getting catcalled while running, enduring the creepy x-ray vision nod from passersby, taking an Uber to make it home safely before your last mile, or holding your keys between your knuckles on a run because uno nunca sabe.

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  Despite Success, Florida's Only Needle Exchange Still Faces Pushback

  July 13 at 8:30 a.m.

  Though heroin-related deaths in Miami-Dade reached an all-time high in 2016 and South Florida continued to lead the nation in new HIV diagnoses, there's some good news: Opioid deaths are decreasing, according to a study from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. One possible reason is the University of Miami’s syringe...

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  Owner of Deadly Hollywood Nursing Home Is Opening a Miami Charter School

  July 5 at 5 p.m.

  After 12 elderly patients died during Hurricane Irma at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills in Hollywood last September, South Floridians were not stunned to learn that the doctor who owned the facility, Jack Michel, had a history of fraud complaints. As WPLG's Bob Norman noted last November, nothing stopped Michel — who...