Florida Department of Health

An increase in the number of Vibrio vulnificus cases this year was to be expected as the infection can be contracted through exposure of open wounds to saltwater, which is common after hurricanes.

The ad concerns medical exceptions to Florida’s six-week abortion ban, a law that voters could overturn through Amendment 4 this November.

Florida has three failing grades in the annual State of Tobacco report. Among those most hurt by tobacco products are Orange County's Black residents.

Then-Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith sued after the Department of Health denied his public records request for COVID-19 data in 2021. He says the settlement requires the department to provide COVID-19 data to the public for the next three years.

The state reported the most cases of the summer, although numbers remain far lower than in the previous three summers. Also, the state had 90,232 reported resident deaths due to the virus.

Researchers are scratching their heads over the number of leprosy cases in Central Florida, leaving some to believe it may be endemic to the area.

In backing a Leon County judge, the appeals court panel said the department had not demonstrated that the decision “would result in irreparable harm.”

An appeals court Monday overturned a ruling that would have blocked Democrat Rebekah Jones from running for a Northwest Florida congressional seat.

An appeals court Friday put on hold a circuit judge’s ruling that would block Democrat Rebekah Jones from running for a Northwest Florida congressional seat.

The Florida Board of Medicine is slated to consider a proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to bar physicians from providing treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty-blocking medication to transgender youths.

County Health Departments in Florida will use a three-phase plan to distribute the limited supply of vaccines to groups deemed high-risk.

A state agency in Florida wants to block Medicaid from covering gender affirming care, calling it experimental. But advocates for the transgender treatment say this care reduces depression and suicide.