April 27, 2024
Healthcare
A Florida First
At a Washington, D.C., seminar in 1996, Joseph Caruncho became intrigued with a novel concept emerging from Medicare: A provider-sponsored organization.
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Published on 11/1/2005
Taking Stock
Auto mechanics have long recommended taking your car in for a 60,000-mile checkup to avoid untimely surprises. Now, more executives are heeding the same advice when it comes to their bodies.
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Published on 11/1/2005
New Options
Breast cancer cases nationwide have tripled in the past 30 years, and the disease is now striking patients in their 20s and 30s instead of late 50s or older.
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Published on 10/1/2005
Fitting In
Nemours Foundation plans to open a free-standing non-profit children's hospital in Orlando by 2010, but first it must find a place in the community.
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Published on 9/1/2005
Betting on the Future
A decade ago, most people who bought long-term care insurance -- or had even heard of it -- were already retired and looking ahead to what life might be like when they were no longer able to handle their own basic chores.
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Published on 9/1/2005
Critical Condition
Jean Wortock, the nursing dean at St. Petersburg College, is worried. With just weeks to go before classes begin, she's short about five instructors and is wondering whether she'll be able to fill the slots in time.
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Published on 8/1/2005
Tomorrow's Medicine
One in every six men eventually develops prostate cancer, but the slow-moving illness is increasingly detected and treated before it becomes deadly.
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Published on 8/1/2005
And The Fight Goes On
Trial lawyers quickly found a way around a constitutional limit on their fees in malpractice cases. Doctors are now trying to put the fence up a different way.
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Published on 8/1/2005
Healthy Endeavor
Kim Barnhill is on a mission to make residents of Jefferson and Madison counties healthier.
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Published on 7/1/2005
De-Stressing
It's rare to be at a business or social gathering these days without someone mentioning yoga, the ancient Eastern art once thought of in the U.S. as a pastime for only young people and hippies.
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Published on 6/1/2005
Railroad Ties
In south Jacksonville,, the recent opening of the state-of-the-art Baptist Medical Center South represents a window into the changing face of northeast Florida.
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Published on 5/1/2005
Nothing to Sneeze At
If you're holding a tissue in your hand right now, chances are you're one of every five or six Americans with allergies or asthma. And chances are you're suffering from Florida's annual burst of oak tree pollen.
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Published on 3/1/2005
The Cancer Equation
As is so often the case in so many areas of science, high-tech and business in the state, Florida has been slow to invest in the people and institutions that would make the state first-rate rather than cut-rate.
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Published on 3/1/2005
Lifesaving Career
While working with the World Health Organization in Geneva in the early 1990s, Jacqueline Cattani supervised a large-scale trial on the effectiveness of insecticide-treated sleeping nets in preventing malaria deaths in children under 5. The lifesaving tri
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Published on 2/1/2005
To Your Health
As many of you know from your personal experiences with health insurance, hospitals or prescriptions, expenditures for healthcare just keep going up. Industry analysts report that healthcare spending in the United States is growing faster than the gross d
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Published on 2/1/2005
Healthcare
The economic outlook in Florida for health insurers, hospitals and pharmaceutical sales.
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Published on 1/1/2005
Testing 1, 2, 3
Even as student drug use overall has declined statewide, the number of students in Florida public schools subject to random testing has more than doubled since 2003.
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Published on 10/1/2004
Doctors vs. Doctors
The Florida Medical Association is trying to crack down on doctors who testify in behalf of injured patients against fellow physicians.
Published on 9/1/2004
Med School Mania
Universities across Florida are racing to start or expand medical schools. Is their goal really to solve a looming doctor shortage?
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Published on 9/1/2004
Quality of Care
The Florida Academy of Family Physicians has begun an effort to re-engineer the education and clinical practices of family physicians to reduce some of the complexity and fragmentation in the healthcare system.
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Published on 9/1/2004
A Healthy Boost
New accounts offer a less-expensive health insurance option for businesses and employees.
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Published on 8/1/2004
What Drives Insurance Costs?
With a career spanning 45 years in the insurance industry in roles ranging from actuary to presidential adviser to state insurance commissioner, J. Robert Hunter has seen it all.
Except...
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Published on 7/1/2004
In Step With Your Customers
Sail on a Royal Caribbean cruise and you'll likely meet passengers who have cruised five, 10, even 50 times. Some are creatures of habit, booking a seven-day Caribbean cruise every...
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Published on 9/1/2001
