The massive brush fire in south Miami-Dade that has burned more than 26,000 acres is now fully contained as of Sunday morning, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials and Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine Cava.

The massive brush fire that began Tuesday in South Miami-Dade, causing authorities to intermittently close the two main roads leading in and out of the Florida Keys, continues to challenge efforts by firefighters to contain it.

Florida legislators passed a public health insurance expansion that would help poor and disabled children get better coverage over a year ago, but it still hasn’t used the funds.

Kicked off of Medicaid, Florida children with medically complex needs are offered a state insurance program designed for healthy kids who cannot provide the care they require.

Dr. Jyoti Somani, the the Associate Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship at Jackson Health sat down with WLRN to answer questions about measles after a case was confirmed at a Miami-Dade high school.

After thousands of families lost Medicaid, many families enrolled their children with complex needs in “Florida Healthy Kids,” a state insurance plan that wasn’t meant to cover their complex medical care.

Nine bills impacting the trans and nonbinary community have already been proposed in Florida and will be considered during the current state legislative session.

Florida terminated Medicaid coverage for more than one million people once the COVID-19 emergency declaration was ended. Thousands of children with complex medical needs lost their Medicaid coverage. Some of them ended up on a plan not designed to provide the coverage they need leaving them without proper care.

Ladapo appeared before Miami Dade County’s committee on safety and health Tuesday, alongside University of Florida professor Ashley J. Malin— whose research focuses on the potential negative effects of fluoride— and two dentists to speak against fluoride in local water supplies.

The state’s insurance regulator has demanded detailed information about patients and their medications, raising privacy concerns.