2014 Legislative Session

The Florida Cabinet, state agency managers and legislative staff are among 30,000 top-ranked state workers who will continue to pay ultra-low health…

Food deserts, areas where fresh and healthy foods can be hard to come by, are all over Florida. There are efforts under way in the Florida Legislature to…

With the 2014 legislative session opening Tuesday, about 400 Floridians rallied in the Capitol Courtyard for what was billed as "Moral Monday." Speakers…

A Florida House bill that would promote "telehealth" - patient care from a distance - passed a key committee Monday by a unanimous vote. It provoked an…

Florida’s 2014 Legislative session will start with the typical benign tone that comes during an election year. But it’s unclear if the Republican-led…

An unprecedented surge of special interest money representing health care interests has been donated to state legislative political committees, the…

Florida legislators from both parties come to the Capitol today agreeing that some of the first bills they'll pass could have saved the life of an…

A bill that would give nurse-practitioners more authority is one of the two big health issues being pushed by the House Select Committee on Health Care…

Ernestine Marshall's every move is being watched: morning, noon and night. Motion-activated sensors are everywhere in her Tampa apartment: on the toilet,…