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• Tom “Bull” Hill is walking from Key West to Tallahassee to try and change state laws for fire fighters with cancer. He started with one backpack and 87 patches of Florida firefighters who died from cancer. He now has three backpacks and the ashes of three firefighters who died – and will likely have a fourth backpack by the time he leaves Central Florida.
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• The Florida Department of Health will begin offering a drug next year to help prevent the spread of HIV.
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• Floridians who didn’t buy health insurance through Obamacare by the deadline last week may still be able to enroll.
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• There have been 56 cases of Mumps since January, more than the last five years combined. Florida has been averaging about six cases a year previously, which makes 2017 the worst year for mumps since the 1990s.
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• The city of Orlando was in court Monday arguing against paying workers compensation benefits to a police officer with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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• Florida Hospital is opening a new hospital in Apopka Wednesday.
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• Call it a mixed day for advocates of expanding treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder in first responders.
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• A bill to expand workers’ compensation coverage to first responders with post-traumatic stress disorder is getting a hearing Tuesday in Tallahassee.
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• An Orlando fire fighter is hitting back after being fired last week.
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• Hospitals and health departments could have a new tool in 2018 to detect Zika – a test that is cheap, portable and fast.
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