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Angie Wang/AP/APAt a Senate hearing on Sept. 9, 2025, on the corruption of science, witnesses presented an unpublished study that made a big assertion. I can say definitively that the study by Henry Ford Health researchers has serious design problems that keep it from revealing much about whether vaccines affect children’s long-term health. -
Miami HeraldThree major hospital systems in Florida are challenging a proposed rule that would change how organ transplant programs are approved and monitored.
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The state’s insurance regulator has demanded detailed information about patients and their medications, raising privacy concerns. -
Companion bills in both chambers would undo part of a 1990 law that involves wrongful death lawsuits and what are known as “noneconomic” damages for such things as pain and suffering. -
North Miami Mayor Alix Desulme, joined with mayors across the country, to urge Congress to reject making cuts to federal programs that help low-income families pay for food. -
Miami-Dade school and state health officials say they are continuing to monitor the school in Pinecrest for any potential outbreak of measles. -
School officials sent a letter to parents that confirmed a student had been diagnosed with measles. A spokesperson Miami-Dade County Public Schools said a press conference is scheduled for Wednesday to discuss the measles case.
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Holland America has reported its fourth norovirus outbreak of 2025 on a cruise out of Port Everglades, with nearly 150 passengers and 10 crew members falling ill. -
The new measure would recruit case managers, combat child sex trafficking, and create a professional foster care pilot program -
SB 1718 has important implications for immigrants, for Floridians and all Americans — particularly as the country faces surges in outbreaks of communicable diseases like measles and the flu. -
Researchers are discovering that a toxin found in cyanobacteria also known as blue-green algae, could increase the risk of degenerative nerve diseases like ALS and possibly even Alzheimer’s. -
The 2025 report by the Florida Policy Institute ranks counties on five factors, with the newest being food security.
