University of South Florida

The show, called This Is My Brave, is part of a national program that aims to reduce the stigma around mental health and addiction and get people talking more about these topics.

In Florida, 975 people were hospitalized with COVID, down from 2,418 a month earlier, according to data released Monday. Also, 101 COVID patients were in intensive care, compared with 1,319 on Feb. 1.

In the first study to look at asthma treatments for Black and Latino patients, researchers at the University of South Florida and around the nation spent more than three years developing solutions to historic inequities in care.

"If you want to wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous." Gov. Ron DeSantis told masked Middleton High School students visiting the governor's appearance at USF.

In the open letter, clinicians wrote that there is no medical justification to ban abortion care at 15 weeks and that the legislation, and others like it, severely limits access to care.

People typically don't report positive results from at-home tests to health officials, so Florida's case totals are likely higher than reported.

Health experts don't anticipate as many people will die during this wave as did during the delta surge this summer.

Some consumers "have gone months" without realizing someone had improperly enrolled them in health plans, with tax credits that may need repaying. A proposed new rule would stop the practice.

The university's president called for people on-campus to wear masks and to be fully vaccinated, while USF faculty recommended holding the first few weeks of the spring semester online.

After losing two patients, one after another, Alicia Sgroi wrote an essay about the experience in the American Journal of Nursing. Her essay is titled "What a Time to Become a Nurse."