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- Crist signs controversial PPO bill
- Model: Green Bay, the anti-Miami
- UM tests online link for diabetics
- State capital's trauma center official
- Shands forms unusual partnership
- ''Natural'' cures on rise, can kill
- Hospitals cut back to stay afloat
- Decoding cancer gene to help patients today
- Board cracks down on pain doctors
- Man shot in head comes out of coma
- Joint replacement? Consider this
- Hospital asks new moms to donate cord
- Cancer discoveries unveiled in FL
- CEO turns down bonus
- Reform could trim HMO extras
- Quadruple amputee gets new trial
- Doctor agrees not to see patients
- Reporting law ignored, group says
- Doctors' foes unveil poll
- 13 more women accuse doctor
| Crist signs controversial PPO bill Posted: Gov. Charlie Crist sided with doctors and signed a hotly debated health insurance bill (SB 1122) that had been opposed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield and some consumer advocates. He said it will improve access to care as well as payment for doctors. He also signed into law a kidney transplant bill. |
| Model: Green Bay, the anti-Miami Posted: 6/11/2009 © Washington Post Today, President Obama visits Green Bay, Wis., one of the highest-value health communities in the nation. There, Medicare patients' health is at least as good as in Miami but costs dramatically less. |
| UM tests online link for diabetics Posted: 6/11/2009 © Miami Herald If low-income diabetics frequently communicate with nurses online, will they stay healthier? Microsoft and the University of Miami are testing the theory on 25 patients from Overtown. |
| State capital's trauma center official Posted: 6/11/2009 © Tallahassee Democrat Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare will be designated as a Level II trauma center on July 1. Before the facility gained provisional trauma status last year, Tallahassee was the only urban area in Florida not served by a trauma center. |
| Shands forms unusual partnership Posted: Shands HealthCare and Solantic are partnering to open a Gainesville medical clinic. That puts the University of Florida's teaching hospital system in business with Rick Scott, who has become the most visible opponent of national health reform (see Health News Florida's article on Scott). |
| ''Natural'' cures on rise, can kill Posted: 6/8/2009 © AP/Bradenton Herald Unproven alternative treatments are making a comeback, offering patients with deadly diseases hope with outlandish claims of cures. Instead, they rob the patient of money and precious time. |
| Hospitals cut back to stay afloat Posted: 6/6/2009 © Miami Herald Hospitals, once considered recession-proof, are now suffering economically, say speakers at the annual South Florida Healthcare Summit. But some for-profit hospitals are doing surprisingly well. |
| Decoding cancer gene to help patients today Posted: 6/7/2009 © St. Petersburg Times The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa is using its bank of cancer samples to decode the unique genetic makeup of cancer genes. Researchers hope to use their findings to target the right treatments for patients. |
| Board cracks down on pain doctors Posted: 6/5/2009 © South Florida Sun-Sentinel The Florida Board of Medicine leveled stricter-than-usual penalties today against doctors found to have doled out narcotic painkillers excessively or improperly. A bill that would give the board more authority over rogue pain clinics awaits action from the governor. |
| Man shot in head comes out of coma Posted: 6/4/2009 © Northwest Florida Daily News Rion Tilton, 22, who has been unconscious for more than a week after being shot in the head, surprised his doctors by coming out of his coma. |
| Joint replacement? Consider this Posted: 6/4/2009 Health News Florida Patients at some Florida hospitals were much more likely to have an unexpected return following knee- or hip-replacement surgery last year than those who had the procedure at other hospitals, new state data show. These potentially preventable readmissions cost Floridians a bundle. Special report: Florida hospitals' "revolving door syndrome, " Part 2. |
| Hospital asks new moms to donate cord Posted: 6/02/2009 © Miami Herald Women who give birth at South Miami Hospital are offered the option of saving the umbilical cord so its stem cells can be used to treat cancer patients. The hospital is part of an expanding network of such centers. |
| Cancer discoveries unveiled in FL Posted: 5/31/2009 Healthfinder.gov The benefits of Tamoxifen, which 500,000 U.S. women take to prevent recurrence of breast cancer, are virtually wiped out if patients also take common anti-depressants, cancer specialists meeting in Orlando learned on Saturday. But on Sunday, they heard good news about cancer vaccines. |
| Posted: Joseph Boshart, CEO of Boca Raton health-staffing firm Cross Country Healthcare, turned down a bonus of nearly $200,000, saying it wouldn't be appropriate at a time of layoffs and losses. |
| Posted: 5/31/2009 © Sun-Sentinel Medicare beneficiaries in South Florida are accused to HMOs offering them freebies like dental and eyeglasses because of the sky-high federal payments the plans receive, double the national average. But that extra cash may soon disappear, and the free dental may go with it. Also, here's a summary of what's happening in health reform in Washington. |
| Quadruple amputee gets new trial Posted: 5/29/2009 © AP/Sun-Sentinel In a rare ruling, Broward Circuit Judge Charles M. Greene has ordered a new malpractice trial for Lisa Strong, who lost all four limbs to an infection. He threw out the jury's verdict for the defendant doctors, saying it was "contrary to the law and the manifest weight of the evidence." |
| Doctor agrees not to see patients Posted: 5/29/2009 © Bradenton Herald Internist C.G. Rao, arrested on charges of sexually molesting five patients and accused of other incidents that now are beyond the statute of limitations, has agreed not to see patients while his legal cases are pending. Bail was set at $20,000. |
| Reporting law ignored, group says Posted: 5/28/2009 © Health News Florida Nearly half of the state's hospitals have never reported a single incident of physician discipline to a databank set up to protect patients from questionable doctors, a consumer group reported Wednesday. Earlier this year, the same group cited Florida's Board of Medicine as particularly weak. |
| Posted: By Christine Jordan Sexton 5/28/2009 Health News Florida Opponents of a bill backed by Florida’s doctors released a poll today that contends Floridians are on their side of the fight. But the Florida Medical Association dismissed the results, saying the poll questions were "skewed to get the answers they wanted." |
| Posted: Bradenton police rearrested internist Gangadhararao Chapalamadugu, known to his patients as C.G. Rao, on Wednesday on charges of sexually molesting four women patients. Detectives say more than 13 patients called after news of Rao's arrest last week, but some alleged events were older than the three-year limit for prosecution. |
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