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• Florida travelers are catching serious mosquito-born diseases abroad, including dengue fever, chikungunya, malaria and Zika virus. Still, officials say the numbers are low and there’s no reason to panic.
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• A petition to put a state constitutional amendment on the ballot that would expand Medicaid in Florida cleared its first major hurdle. So who is funding the effort?
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• Behavioral therapists who work mostly with children on the autism spectrum say the state agency that oversees the Medicaid program is finally starting to listen to their concerns. The State Agency for Health Care Administration is now running meetings on behavior analysis therapy changes — that had been scheduled in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Pensacola over the coming weeks — in webinar form.
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• Edible medical marijuana is coming to Florida.
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• April is STD awareness month, and the Florida Department of Health is offering free STD testing at locations across the state. Chlamydia, gonorrhea and HIV cases are all on the rise in Florida.
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• A bill to give better benefits to firefighters with cancer passed a threshold this week: A majority of member of the Florida House of Representatives have cosponsored the bill.
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• Curaleaf sold smokeable medical marijuana to Orlando patients for the first time Wednesday.
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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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