Florida Department of Health

Fatalities among children were high again for a second year in Florida, while national numbers were the highest since the swine flu pandemic during the 2009-10 season.

Legislators are working to make Children's Medical Services more cost-efficient by transferring its operations to another agency. Critics think it could stymie care for kids.

There have been above-average numbers in Florida of travel-related cases of the mosquito-borne disease dengue. Now, control groups are working to make sure the disease doesn’t become endemic.

Lori Freeman, CEO of the National Association of County & City Health Officials, said much of the funding was set to end soon anyway.

Dr. Taweh Beysolow, who joined the agency last November., will oversee all Monroe locations department locations and see patients once a week.

The shutting down of the historic Gato building on Simonton Street displaced the administrative offices for several municipal agencies, including the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County.

State regulators didn’t do anything wrong when they rejected Green Thumb Industries' requests to open dispensaries near or adjacent to convenience stores, an administrative law judge ruled.

The Florida Board of Medicine fined and reprimanded Dr. Candace Sue Cooley, who did not comply in 2022 with a law requiring 24-hour waiting periods before abortions can be performed.

RSV was in full swing throughout November, but vaccine levels for it and other respiratory diseases remain low - especially in high-risk populations.

The Florida Department of Health in Monroe County is temporarily relocating its Healthy Start services and WIC program due to the closure of the Gato Building in Key West.