The Florida Department of Health warned customers of Duval’s on Main Street in Sarasota that a food service worker has been diagnosed with Hepatitis A and may have exposed guests who visited the restaurant between April 26, 2019 and May 10, 2019.
Florida first lady Casey DeSantis is taking on mental health as a major issue, announcing Thursday that she’ll work with state agencies to examine the effectiveness of state programs and work with private businesses to let Floridians know about resources available to them.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection says 5,500 gallons of the sewage absorbed in the area around the lift station. The pumps failed because of an electrical problem, subsequently causing the spill.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice about the spill that happened at around noon in the 7200 block of Bounty Drive in the Gulf Gate neighborhood in Sarasota.
Several firefighters joined state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and lawmaker at the state capitol Thursday in support of legislation that would provide additional benefits to firefighters who are diagnosed with cancer.
Sponsors say the measure would give Floridians an opportunity to pay less for vital prescription drugs. U.S. consumers pay some of the highest prescription drug prices in the world, as much as 30% to 190% more than other Western countries, according to a legislative staff analysis.
According to Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, currently 113 of 115 elder care facilities in Sarasota County are in compliance while 53 of 55 are in compliance in Manatee County.
In the lawsuit, the groups claim that over the course of many years, Sarasota County has failed to maintain its sewage system. It says the infrastructure is aging and gets inundated very quickly, so not only is raw sewage spilling, but storm water as well, has been dumping into our waterways - way m
For two decades now, the Venice Fire Department and the Sarasota County Fire Department have shared responsibility in this area, but starting October of 2020, Sarasota County is stepping aside, and the Venice Fire Department will take all EMS calls.
Mote Marine Lab's CEO and President, Dr. Michael Crosby, said people can expect major developments in fighting the red tide within in the next few years.
Florida lawmakers are discussing a bill that aims to prevent childhood lead poisoning. The bill would require all public schools built before the year 1986 to install filters to reduce lead in the water systems. 1986 was the year congress outlawed lead pipes in new construction nationwide.
The Sarasota Police Department has decided to hold off on enforcing which stores can sell CBD oils until the state decides how they want to regulate the substance.
The Centers for Disease Control reports that 2019 so far has the second largest number of cases of the measles in the United States since the year 2000.
The House Health and Human Services Committee voted Wednesday to cap THC levels in smokable medical marijuana at 10% over the objection of patient advocates who said stronger marijuana is already on the market and limiting strength will hurt patients and boost black market pot sales.
Two suicides in the span of a week involving student survivors of last year’s Parkland school shooting have sparked a new question at the Florida Capitol: How much mental-health money should the state provide to schools?
Early Tuesday morning, public health professionals at the Manatee County Health Department were on a conference call with other affected counties in the state. That meeting was to discuss the increase in Hepatitis A cases statewide and how to tackle the disease.
The Senate Health Policy Committee voted 8-2 Monday for one of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' top priorities in the 60-day legislative session. A companion measure with several key differences is moving through House committees that would eventually need to be reconciled with the Senate version.
If one Sarasota City Commissioner Hagen Brody has his way, there will be an option for softer rules when people get caught smoking or in possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana.
A global team of experts, including researchers and doctors from both Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, will be working together out of the CORE Campus in their future “brain lab” to learn both positive and negative contributions to brain health and performance.
Being involved in Florida healthcare for the last 27 years, Roush knows what patients want and need, and she’s planning on ensuring that with this new medical center.
Legislation approved by a Florida House panel Tuesday would require customers to be notified by US mail each time raw or partially treated sewage is released or leaks into waterways.
With plenty of breathing room before a March 15 deadline set by Gov. Ron DeSantis, House and Senate leaders have neared completion of a measure that would do away with a state ban on smoking medical marijuana.
The legislation would establish the loan-repayment program at the Florida Department of Health. Loan repayments would be available to dentists who are willing to practice in public health or in areas of the state that lack dental professionals or are medically underserved.
Two days after Governor Ron DeSantis announced a plan to begin importing drugs from Canada, Senate President Bill Galvano on Friday questioned part of the proposal.
Florida legislators are ready to vote on measures that would allow patients to smoke medical marijuana, ahead of a mid-March deadline set by Governor Ron DeSantis.
Implementing a voter-approved ban on electronic smoking devices in workplaces is moving forward in the Florida House of Representatives, without a proposal by anti-smoking advocates to redefine vaping devices as tobacco products.
OneBlood Inc. will be holding a blood drive at the North Port office of Charlotte State Bank and Trust on Friday, Feb. 15. OneBlood’s Big Red Bus will be in the bank parking lot from 3:00 until 5:00 p.m.
As of January first of this year, hospitals across the country have been required to list all of their prices online. It’s supposed to make health care costs more transparent between medical centers and patients, but has this new tool been more helpful or confusing?
The Sarasota Memorial Venice Hospital will break ground in just a few months, and is expected to open its doors in Fall of 2021. The construction for the replacement Venice Regional Hospital will begin this Summer and it should be finished within 3 years.
Septic tanks are designed for use in low-population rural communities where a central sewer system is not feasible. However, for decades in many parts of Florida, developers have often used septic tanks as a cost-cutting measure when building new homes, even in more urban environments.
DeSantis wants a new law by mid-March that will end a ban on smokable medical marijuana and loosen limits on treatment center licenses, saying voters spoke clearly when they approved medical marijuana in 2016.
Florida organ donors could get free decals for their cars, minivans or trucks under a bill filed Wednesday for consideration during the 2019 legislative session.
On Saturday, a source delivered a news tips to ABC7 about a canal filled with brown rusty water in a residential community. The water went from clear, to green, then a coffee color, according to residents along the Bayshore Canal, which leads to the Sarasota Bayfront.
For the first time in U.S. History, Americans are now more likely to die of an accidental opioid overdose than in a motor vehicle accident, according to a new report by the National Safety Council.
At a workshop on Friday morning, Fire Chief Shawn Carvey presented research to council members showing that 66% of the time that an emergency medical service call is placed, the Venice Fire Department arrives before Sarasota County ambulances.
