A combination of specialists and health care facilities with national reputations for noninvasive treatments are why medical tourism is a consistent fraction of the city's tourism economy.
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Disney says the Disability Access Service, which allows pass-holders and their immediate family members to make an online reservation for a ride and not have to wait, needed changing because it had grown fourfold.
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With the help of two Tampa-area VA offices, more homeless veterans than ever were taken off the street this year and given live-changing benefits.
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Researchers hope a study will reveal the mechanisms behind the change from ankle-driven walking in youth to more knee and hip-focused movement in older adults.
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The Appropriations Committee is scheduled to take up Senate President Ben Albritton's priority "rural renaissance" bill next week, possibly sending it before the full chamber after the session starts in January.
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Attorney General James Uthmeier issued the rule in August prohibiting the kratom byproduct alkaloid 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH.
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Alachua County-based Trajector Medical is charging military veterans as much as $20,000 for help with disability claims, even though the service should be free. So far, nobody's stopping the company and others like it.
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At Lee Health, doctors are getting a major boost in the battle against breast cancer through the use of AI.
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Veterans with male breast cancer will face additional requirements to obtain VA care and disability benefits. The agency says the Biden administration falsely classified men's breasts as reproductive organs.
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Former NFL star Drew Brees visits. Also, how music can reshape the brain in ways words cannot, and how art helped a Parkinson's patient steady her hands and connect to healing.
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The University of Central Florida is preparing to roll out a new mobile clinic for communities with low health care rates in Orange and Osceola counties.
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The bill that ended the shutdown includes a provision to ban THC drinks and snacks derived from hemp. The $24 billion industry is now scrambling to save itself before the measure takes effect a year from now.
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The Vibrio case total for the year is the lowest is since 2019, according to the health department. An infectious disease expert explains why cases would still show up this late in the year.
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A Naples man sets the record as the oldest player ever in the Roy Hobbs World Series in Southwest Florida. Tony Esposito said he never wants to stop playing the game he loves.
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Lawyers for the Smart & Safe Florida committee said they were waiving the right to appeal Leon County Judge John Cooper's ruling “to provide finality to this matter and certainty to the result.”