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The families of four children in St. Johns, Alachua, Duval and Orange counties say the ban singles out transgender minors and blocks them from obtaining medically necessary care.

The rule limits surgeons to performing three of the procedures a day and requires that they use ultrasound. The procedures, more technically called gluteal fat grafting, involve injecting fat to enlarge or reshape patients’ buttocks.

Members of the Florida Board of Medicine are grappling with whether the technology can be used by physicians for purposes other than treating patients. For example, supervising electrologists.

The Florida Medical Association requested the two-year waiver, but an analysis found it would reduce board revenues by $33.8 million over that period.

A state licensing board continues to grapple with how best to address mental-health issues and substance abuse among medical students and physicians...

Doctors often ask patients to fill out medical histories. But before being licensed in Florida, doctors have to divulge their own medical histories to...

The Florida Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into a battle about how much patients should be charged for copies of medical records.

The Florida Board of Medicine is preparing to vote on rules for doctors recommending medical cannabis.

A Florida lawmaker wants to put some regulations in place for laser hair removal technicians.

A doctor accused of giving a toddler a fatal dose of an unapproved drug was declared “very, very dangerous” at a meeting of the Florida Board of...

Orthopedic surgeon Edward Homan, who served eight years in the Florida House of Representatives, is the latest high-profile physician to be publicly...

Sarasota urologist Ronald Wheeler says he's going to continue doing a controversial prostate-cancer treatment, even though an FDA panel recently voted...