Premature Birth Rates In Florida Increase Again
• For black women, the numbers are even worse.
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• For black women, the numbers are even worse.
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• The State of Florida is now providing consumers with more information about health care costs.
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• A bill proposed for the 2020 Florida legislative session that would ban religious exemptions for vaccines will not be heard in committee, largely because of pushback from the anti-vaccine movement.
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• Therapists in Tampa are once again able to conduct the controversial procedure known as conversion therapy after a federal judge struck down a city ban on it.
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• Florida is now one of 16 states where federal and state officials are investigating lung-related illnesses that have suspected ties to e-cigarette use, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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• Florida is dealing with the state’s worst hepatitis A outbreak in years and the Tampa Bay area has been hit the hardest. Health officials in Pinellas County are using a new method to combat the virus, which attacks the liver.
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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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