Children's Health

Last of a four-part series: Legislators passed a public health insurance expansion that would help poor and disabled children get better coverage over a year ago, but funds remain unused.

Part 3 of a series: Kicked off of Medicaid, Florida children with medically complex needs are offered a state insurance program designed for healthy kids who cannot provide the care they require.

Part 2 in a series: After thousands of families lost Medicaid, many enrolled their children with complex needs in Florida Healthy Kids, a state insurance plan that wasn’t meant to cover their special care.

The county's safety and health committee took no action on fluoridation after the surgeon general's presentation to convince members to end the practice.

Part 1: Thousands of Florida children with complex ailments lost Medicaid during the unwinding and ended up on a plan not designed to provide the coverage they need.

Juul will send $30 million to the newly created Vape Free Florida Fund to help in the enforcement laws to protect “children from harmful marketing and products.”

The CDC estimates 19,000 people have died from the flu so far this winter including 86 children. The agency says at least nine of those children experienced brain complications

Groups representing communications companies are arguing the 2024 measure unconstitutionally limits free speech. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker says he may make a decision within three weeks.

The proposal would result in recruiting case managers, combatting child sex trafficking, and creating a professional foster care pilot program.

The law allows parents of children with chronic and complex medical needs to be paid a salary to care for that child. However, it is almost impossible for a parent to be enrolled without losing Medicaid eligibility, linked to the new income.

The hospital COO says 93% of the families in Pasco, Citrus and Hernando counties travel outside of that market for specialty pediatric care. The new 56-bed facility will help address that need.

With continuous glucose monitors, students with Type 1 diabetes no longer have to visit the school nurse for a finger prick. But some parents say it falls to them to keep an eye on blood sugar levels from home or work.