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• In the last couple years, the state Agency for Health Care Administration has been cracking down on fraudulent billing practices by clinics that provide behavior analysis therapy to children on the autism spectrum.
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• Florida’s ban on smokable medical marijuana could soon be coming to an end.
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• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants medical marijuana patients to be able to smoke the whole flower. Lawmakers aren’t so sure.
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• Statewide, Hepatitis A cases were three times higher than in 2018 than the five-year average. But in Orange County, there were 123 cases in 2018 — more than 55 times the normal amount of cases. And in 2019 so far, we’re already at 15 times the five-year average of cases.
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• It’s turning into an interesting week for medical marijuana in Florida: Growers are working on deals to get edibles in the state, while lawmakers are again taking up the issue of smoking medical cannabis.
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• Florida’s chief financial officer is asking incoming Attorney General William Barr to provide guidance on medical marijuana banking.
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• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released a plan that will use a combination of prevention and treatment to eliminate 90 percent of new HIV cases in the United States by 2030.
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• It appears there’s a link between drug marketing and prescription drug overdoses. New research finds a troubling relationship between pharmaceutical company sales techniques and opioid deaths.
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• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing sweeping changes to the state’s medical marijuana system – including an end to the ban on smoking medical marijuana.
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• After 12 nursing home residents died from heat exposure during power outages from Hurricane Irma, Florida lawmakers required nursing homes and assisted living facilities have generators that can run the air condititioner for four days.
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