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• Orange County Fire Chief Jim Fitzgerald says it’s not enough that the state now offers benefits to firefighters with cancer. The new fire chief says departments need to do more to reduce the number of firefighters who get sick.
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• A new bill in the Florida legislature aims to ban smoking on public beaches.
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• Woman at Sand Lake Imaging will donate mammograms to patients at Shepherd’s Hope.
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• A new poll finds that most Americans support protections for pre-existing conditions under the Affordable Care Act. They worry about losing coverage or rising costs without these safeguards in place.
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• People with pre-existing conditions gathered in Orlando to call on Rick Scott to support the Affordable Care Act. The state is one of twenty challenging the law’s constitutionality in court.
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• More than 400 fire departments throughout Florida have received decontamination kits that can be used to decrease a firefighter’s exposure to cancer-causing substances.
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• A team of Florida researchers say Zika virus could be used to treat one of the deadliest types of childhood cancers. It attacks tumor cells.
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• One Indialantic couple wants to see the Florida legislature pass a cancer law for firefighters this session. It would offer them disability and some death benefits.
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• A new tool helps doctors visualize irregular heartbeats in children and infants without using radiation. This reduces their risk of developing cancer.
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• The central Florida attorney behind an effort to legalize smokeable medical marijuana says he expects the issue to go before the state Supreme Court.
That’s after an appeals court ruled in favor of a ban on the drug.
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