Associated PressSeptember 30, 2019
10min220
There’s significant overlap among the major approaches.
Tag: hepatitis CReps. Steve Womack and Jason Crow. Image via AP.
Associated PressSeptember 30, 2019
Danny McAuliffeMarch 20, 2019
4min516
Prison health care costs are keeping the justice budget tight.
Guest AuthorAugust 20, 2018
5min232
Many efforts are underway to improve America’s health care system, but there is one issue affecting Florida’s most vulnerable patients that has yet to receive the attention it deserves. Floridians living with chronic and rare diseases are being denied lifesaving care simply because they benefit from charity aid — and this is all the result […]
Guest AuthorJanuary 16, 2018
7min600
Since the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, public health experts have advocated for syringe exchange programs as one the most powerful tools to reduce the spread of viral infections — including HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C — by removing contaminated syringes from circulation. They have documented time and again that […]
Staff ReportsMarch 2, 2017
5min335
Congressman Vern Buchanan Thursday demanded answers from the new Veterans Affairs secretary about the nationwide theft of opioids and prescription drugs intended to help suffering veterans. In a letter to VA Secretary David Shulkin, the Sarasota Republican wrote, “I’m concerned that Florida veterans may be at risk following press reports of a shocking spike in […]
Mitch PerryOctober 20, 2015
3min401
Although she’s been thwarted in the past few years, Plantation Democratic state Rep. Katie Edwards is back again to propose a needle exchange program that would help prevent transmission of HIV and hepatitis among intravenous drug users. HB 81 would create a five-year pilot program with the University of Miami to offer free, clean and unused needles and syringes […]
Guest AuthorJuly 12, 20159min207
Florida is not an early adapter. Most of the time, our state takes a “wait-and-see” attitude regarding nearly any health policy, social program or economic strategy that has been attempted by another state’s legislature. In some cases, no amount of positive data on a successful program is enough to convince our leadership to move in […]