Health
Acting sick: Fake patients help teach medical students
The "patients" wear hospital gowns, are poked and prodded and quizzed on their ailments.
Nov 16, 2015
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Health
In a twist, fight for medical pot goes to Florida Statehouse
(AP)—Republicans lawmakers in Florida who once opposed medical pot are now embracing it, motivated by the strong show of support from voters and worried that another constitutional amendment during next year's presidential ...
Feb 22, 2015
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Florida has highest number of enrollees under health law
Florida has eclipsed California to become the state with the highest number of consumers buying health coverage through new insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act, according to federal statistics released Wednesday.
Feb 18, 2015
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RJ Reynolds vows to fight $23.6B in damages
(AP)—The No. 2 U.S. cigarette maker is vowing to fight a jury verdict of $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.
Jul 20, 2014
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US Supreme Court set for death row IQ appeal
A Florida inmate is challenging the US state's use of a rigid IQ number to determine intellectual disability, in a case that spotlights the issue of the mentally ill on death row.
Mar 2, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Florida uptick in tick-borne diseases
Florida is exceptional for countless reasons – sunshine, beaches, theme parks—but a new distinction is cause for growing concern among health experts and tourism officials alike: a rapid and unexplained increase in the ...
Nov 27, 2013
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