The Florida Department of Health is lifting the advisory for high bacterial levels for several Bay County locations. The ...

Thousands of disabled and autistic children in Florida are losing medically-prescribed therapy after an audit revealed that unqualified therapists were being paid through Medicaid. On Dec.

Florida's aging population is driving the need for patient-centered hospice care. In 2024, the state had 166,116 hospice ...

Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations against diseases that have killed and maimed millions of children. Many critics of the decision, inc ...

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced plans to end vaccine mandates during a Sept. 3 press conference. Vaccine mandates are enacted in all 50 states, poising Florida as the first state ...

The hearing comes nearly a year after Florida health regulators announced their intent to award medical marijuana licenses to 22 of dozens of applicants.

Nearly two dozen people have developed food poisoning in Florida after consuming tainted raw milk from the same farm, according to the state’s Department of Health. Florida officials didn’t initially ...

Anotehr case of Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," has been reported in southwest Florida. Here's how to protect yourself.

The Florida Department of Health in Duval County has extended a health alert for harmful blue-green algae toxins in the St. Johns River.

An outbreak of E. coli and Campylobacter tied to raw milk from a Florida farm has sickened 21 people, including six children, state health officials said. The Florida Department of Health issued a ...