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Peter SchorschAugust 15, 2017

Culminating a multi-decade career covering the complex topic of health care, Carol Gentry is retiring from WUSF Public Media’s Health News Florida. Gentry single-handedly created Health News Florida in 2006 as an independent nonprofit health journalism publication, and in 2012, Gentry joined the WUSF family when she brought Health News Florida into the fold of WUSF Public […]

Phil AmmannAugust 24, 2015

WUSF Public Media named Health Editor Mary Shedden as News Director. With more than two decades of reporting experience, Shedden has been at WUSF in Tampa since 2013. She has recently been editor of Health News Florida, which provides public radio and online health news. Health News Florida, with reporters in Orlando, Miami, Tampa, and St. […]

Ryan RayJune 24, 2015

Sen. Durell Peaden, a beloved and bemusing former lawmaker from the Panhandle known for his passion and savvy on health care issues, passed away Wednesday morning. He was 69. Peadon, known to intimates as “Doc,” had undergone double bypass surgery earlier this month and was in stable condition, resting in Pennsylvania afterward. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, […]

Christine Jordan SextonJune 9, 2015

Sen. Durell Peaden is stable in Pennsylvania after having double bypass surgery June 2. Peaden was traveling with his wife when he had the heart attack and was admitted to a hospital. Friends say he is in stable condition and should be able to return to Florida in the next few weeks. Peaden is the chairman […]

James CallMarch 13, 2015

I was all prepared to begin this week’s column telling you how cool and smooth I think John Armstrong is. I’ve taken some shots at the Secretary of Health over his handling of developing rules to implement the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014. The process places us in an adversarial relationship and the Scott administration communication strategy makes it a […]

Tag: Health News Florida

WUSF’s Carol Gentry retiring from Health News Florida

Personnel note: WUSF Public Media names Mary Shedden as News Director

Remembering Sen. Durell Peaden, 69

Former Sen. Durell Peaden stable in Pennsylvania after open heart surgery

The week that was in Florida politics — March 13, 2015