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DAVID I. MUIR/FOR SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES Life is amazing.  Incredible things happen when one least expects them.  Being given the chance to write this column …

By GARY FINEOUT Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Republican senators are meeting directly with federal officials to talk about health care funding that the …

David I. Muir/for South Florida Times   Recently I found myself utilizing the services of one of our fine local emergency rooms.  The irony of …

PHOTO COURTESY OF thinkprogress.org   By PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON — GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz could soon be buying his family’s health care …

By EMILY SWANSON WASHINGTON — Americans want lower taxes and more government spending both at once, although their support for spending more tax dollars on …

PHOTO: DAVID I. MUIR/FOR SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES   I opened the door and walked into the exam room.  A Belgian Shepard lunges at me.  Snarling. …

PHOTO COURTESY OF FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY  BOCA RATON — The Quantum Foundation is teaming up with Modernizing Medicine and Florida Atlantic University’s world-class accelerator, Tech …

By MARIA CHENG and RAPHAEL SATTER GENEVA — In a delay that some say may have cost lives, the World Health Organization resisted calling the Ebola outbreak in West …

PHOTO COURTESY OF nichd.nih.gov   By BOB LaMENDOLA Special to South Florida Times   BROWARD COUNTY — When children under age 4 died in Broward …

CASPER, Wyo. — The number of Wyoming residents enrolled in a federal health insurance marketplace has nearly doubled this year. In the second year of the …