Health & Science

Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced the availability of cancer innovation grant funds for next year and the latest list of researchers chosen to receive grants.

Florida has reported 17 cases and three deaths this year from Vibrio vulnificus, which can be contracted by eating raw oysters or swimming in brackish water with an open wound.

The vice president of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics knows what happens when the vaccination rate dips below herd immunity.

Pediatricians are pushing back on an executive order calling for changes to the childhood vaccination schedule.

Despite a call to end vaccine mandates in Florida, nothing has happened on a policy level. Now, pediatricians are seeing vaccine hesitancy growing.

TPD recently announced its Approach with Care Autism Awareness Initiative. It includes additional training for officers and free vehicle decals.

James Uthmeier says his office will look into the former chief medical adviser to the president, who pleaded the Fifth Amendment during testimony in Washington about the COVID-19 pandemic.

During a roundtable on youth mental health, Dr. Joseph Ladapo introduced guidelines urging broader evaluations by providers before children are prescribed psychotropics.

Dr. Norman Beatty from the University of Florida says the total number of cases this year is likely to be higher than last year.

A circuit court judge heard arguments Tuesday regarding the delayed expansion of Florida KidCare, a subsidized children's health insurance program.