The marijuana reform movement won two prized victories Tuesday, with Massachusetts voters decriminalizing possession of small amounts of the drug and Michigan joining 12 other states in allowing use of pot for medical purposes. Key ballot measures elsewhere addressed same-sex marriage and abortion. ...more

November 5, 2008

The frail and elderly were put aboard buses Wednesday and authorities warned 1 million others to flee inland as Hurricane Ike steamed toward a swath of the Texas coast that includes the nation's largest concentration of refineries and chemical plants. ...more

September 11, 2008

Bishop Bruce Wright is a source of hope and comfort to patients at University Community Hospital. ...more

June 28, 2008

Bishop Bruce Wright is a source of hope and comfort to patients at University Community Hospital. ...more

June 18, 2008

Bishop Bruce Wright is a source of hope and comfort to patients at University Community Hospital. ...more

June 18, 2008

UNIVERSITY AREA Bishop Bruce Wright is a source of hope and comfort to patients at University Community Hospital. As the hospital's chaplain, he shares in the celebration of births and grieves with families when a patient is lost. He counsels the terminally ill and consoles the injured. Wright, 56, spends countless hours attending to the spiritual needs of men, women and children at UCH, UCH-Carrollwood, Pepin Heart Hospital and Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital. ...more

June 17, 2008

A new thrift store whose sales will benefit families and patients with hospice care wants to stock its shelves with resalable merchandise for its mid-July grand opening. ...more

May 28, 2008

A new thrift store whose sales will benefit families and patients with hospice care wants to stock its shelves with resalable merchandise for its mid-July grand opening. ...more

May 28, 2008

Bayfront Medical Center can offer health care professionals an exciting and rewarding work environment. ...more

January 13, 2008

SEBRING — As far as doctors go, Dr. Raymond Veras does not get out much. He spends his work hours mostly inside Florida Hospital, checking on the more ill children and infants, some of them hospital-bound. Like him. The pediatric hospitalist is a new breed of doctor in the area. Hired two months ago, he is the first pediatrician to not only visit Florida Hospital or to refer the sick children there, he also stays there, he says. Along with Dr. Cathy Lee and Dr. Ronald Fronda, who switch back and forth between the hospitals in Lake Placid and Sebring, the three from Florida Hospital and two others from Highlands Regional Medical Center are doing what several hospitals across the country began doing 11 years ago. With outside doctors getting slammed with patients and other patients being too sick for a simple office visit, both Florida Hospital and Highlands Regional Medical Center began hospitalist programs less than a year ago. ...more

September 23, 2007