Senior Resource Alliance, Central Florida’s Area Agency on Aging, seeks volunteers to help local seniors navigate their health insurance needs this enrollment season.
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From the Senior Resource Alliance
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8/23/23
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An HHS official said the department is in the process of identifying the COVID-19 vaccines that will move into the Phase IIb clinical trials.
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By Jennifer Shutt, Florida Phoenix
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8/23/23
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Youth homelessness also takes less recognizable forms: couch-surfing teens and children whose families have been forced to double up with relatives or friends and who might go undetected by authorities.
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By Robbie Sequeira, Florida Phoenix
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8/22/23
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Nathaniel Plummer, representing the JDRF Children’s Congress, traveled to the halls of Congress to speak with elected officials to ask that they renew the Special Diabetes Program.
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By Jake Bell, Interning Correspondent for The Apopka Voice
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8/20/23
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As a psychologist who studies the ways in which sleep benefits memory, I’m also interested in how sleep deprivation harms memory and cognition.
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By Kimberly Fenn, Michigan State University
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8/17/23
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For every 100,000 children in the U.S. – with 1 in 5 of those children having a mental, emotional or behavioral disorder in a given year – there are only 14 child and adolescent psychiatrists available to treat them. Why the shortage?
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By Steven Berkowitz, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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8/16/23
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Health policy experts highlight many concerns regarding Florida's Medicaid Redetermination process, claiming it results in a lack of coverage for eligible children and families.
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By Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix and Trimmel Gomes, Florida News Connection
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8/16/23
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So far this year, there have been 10 cases of the illness from people who got infected in the state. Almost 200 Floridians contracted the illness after traveling to a region where dengue is endemic.
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By Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
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8/15/23
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Nationwide, one in 11 people get their medical care from a community health center, including 400,000 veterans, nearly 9 million children, and 1.4 million people experiencing homelessness.
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By Trimmel Gomes, Florida News Connection
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8/13/23
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Dangerously hot and humid conditions have continued across the state of Florida this summer, and heat index values have regularly climbed into the triple digits.
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From the Orange County Newsroom
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8/9/23
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While the Florida Department of Health isn’t placing a lot of emphasis on COVID-19, a subvariant called EG.5 is rising globally. The EG.5 is from the XBB strain of Omicron.
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By Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
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8/9/23
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Although the malaria vector, the Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito species, never disappeared from the state, Florida has kept the disease at bay for the most part.
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By Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
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7/30/23
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Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez says the $65 million appropriated by the Legislature will help Alzheimer's and dementia patients with technology and resources.
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By Andrew Powell, The Center Square
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7/20/23
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Job loss, health crisis, rent gouging, and the death of a spouse are among the top reasons people and families find themselves homeless. Fate follows each of us like a shadow sewn to our heels, and the choices left after experiencing a tragedy are something that we tackle both individually and culturally.
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By Alisha Garner, Interning Correspondent for The Apopka Voice
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7/18/23
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In this 4-part series, The Apopka Voice examines homelessness both nationwide and locally with a goal of narrowing the focus and shedding light on what can eradicate the next American epidemic.
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By Alisha Garner, Interning Correspondent for The Apopka Voice
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7/17/23
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According to the CDC, the eight cases that popped up in Palm Beach in 2003 marked the last time the country experienced the spread of locally acquired malaria.
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By Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
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7/16/23
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Mental health was selected as the priority for the 2024 funding cycle based on community health issues addressed in the 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment and the 2023-2025 Community Health Plan.
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From AdventHealth Orlando News
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7/11/23
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While mosquitoes leave bothersome, itchy bites on your skin, they can also pose a serious and sometimes deadly risk to your health.
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By Immo A. Hansen and Hailey A. Luker, New Mexico State University
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7/10/23
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Between 2016 and 2021, researchers tested private wells and public water sources all over the country, according to the study published on Wednesday.
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By Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
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7/10/23
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Chagas disease can be a silent killer: Symptoms may take decades to appear and are often irreversible once they are recognized.
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This piece was originally written by Natalie Van Hoose and published here on the Emerging Pathogens Institute website
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7/10/23
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According to a CDC study published Thursday, the sharp increase in cases of Cyclosporiasis follows a nationwide trend caused by a parasite found in domestically grown produce.
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By Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
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7/9/23
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Finding true forgiveness and healing for a youth who has experienced a disrupted childhood happens when they’re with a stable and loving family – however they define the word “family.”
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By Julia Eusebio, Embrace Families
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7/4/23
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Malaria is a serious and sometimes life-threatening disease caused by the bite of a female mosquito. The most common symptoms are fever, chills, headaches, muscle aches, and fatigue.
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Because Florida is among the handful of states that have not expanded Medicaid for low-income adults, it hears "heartbreaking" stories from people with no health-coverage alternative.
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By Trimmel Gomes, Florida News Connection
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6/29/23
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According to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than one million people have lost their Medicaid coverage nationally, and Florida has the most who are no longer eligible for benefits.
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By Andrew Powell, The Center Square
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6/23/23
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