City hospital officials promised reforms at a Brooklyn psychiatric ward where surveillance footage captured a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers watched without helping for more than an hour. ...more

July 2, 2008

Passengers flying tiny SeaCoast Airlines between St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport and Key West gather in what looks more like a cozy family room than an airport terminal. ...more

June 10, 2008

"You have cancer." Those three words will test the spirit of even the strongest person. To hear them twice takes a special resilience. ...more

May 2, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Although the Tooth Fairy hasn't yet visited 6-year-old Ramon Castellano of Lake Placid, he was one of the first patients at the new Children's Dental Care of Highlands. The new 1,200-square-foot dental clinic where Ramon received care is located at the Lake Placid Health Department building, at 106 Main Ave. Any of the county's 15,000 children who are uninsured and Medicaid-eligible pay based on a sliding scale, which starts at no charge, said Dr. Paula Thaqi, director of the Highlands County Health Department. ...more

February 9, 2008

"Congratulations, the operation was a complete success." ...more

January 12, 2008

TAMPA - Mostafa Ahmed felt the pain in his chest and his hands. He called his boss, closed the gas station where he worked and rushed to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital. ...more

November 22, 2007

Next week, Sarasota will host one of the nation's first major conferences in the field, pulling in experts from companies such as IDEO, Duke Energy and Sony Pictures Imageworks. ...more

October 28, 2007

Gary and I sat quietly in the clinic's waiting room, glancing toward the receptionist's desk as we waited for his mother's name to be called. After three long weeks of blood tests, brain scans and psychological tests, the pieces to the puzzle of Lil's increasingly bizarre behavior would be put together into a diagnosis. ...more

October 23, 2007

John loves Harley. ...more

October 14, 2007