Carol Gentry
Carol Gentry, founder and special correspondent of Health News Florida, has four decades of experience covering health finance and policy, with an emphasis on consumer education and protection.
After serving two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, Gentry worked for a number of newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times), the Tampa Tribune and Orlando Sentinel. She was a Kaiser Foundation Media Fellow in 1994-95 and earned an MPA at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 1996. She directed a journalism fellowship program at CDC for four years.
Gentry created Health News Florida, an independent non-profit health journalism publication, in 2006, and served as editor until September, 2014. She and Health News Florida joined WUSF in 2012. Contact Ms. Gentry at at 727-410-3266 or by e-mail.
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A blood treatment that was popular 75 years ago but faded away when antibiotics came along may be making a comeback with the increasing popularity of ...
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Florida’s most vocal advocacy group on health issues will lay off all five of its employees next month as an indirect result of the Republican sweep in...
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Florida CHAIN, the state's most active group urging health care for all, says it will lay off all five staff members at the end of next month because it...
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The hottest trend in health care these days may be “integrative medicine,” which claims to blend the best ideas from alternative medicine and conventional…
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Stephanie Sofronsky was just 23, close to graduation from Florida Atlantic University, when she learned she had lymphoma. She didn’t want to believe it....
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It makes Gary Schwitzer cringe when he sees a network news report about a diet that lets you eat pizza, doughnuts and ice cream while melting away fat.
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An outpatient treatment for severely depressed patients who get no relief from drugs or talk therapy is becoming increasingly available and affordable.
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A South Florida clinic that promotes controversial stem-cell treatments for a wide range of ailments is among the centers receiving a written warning that…
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Editor's note: This story has been updated and contains a correction. Florida lawmakers should enact more protections for health-insurance consumers and...
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Videos accusing psychiatrists and the drug industry of inventing diseases and defrauding the public are the centerpiece of a modest storefront museum...
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When multiple sclerosis patient Meesha Cook suffers a seizure, she doesn’t get to decide where she’ll go for treatment. If the Brevard County resident...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has become the Obama administration's envoy to Florida on behalf of the Affordable Care Act. She has…