Perhaps you think the flu season is winding down. It's not. Tampa Bay-area doctors say a viral syndrome is making its way around the region that can leave people sick and achy for up to three weeks. ...more

February 12, 2008

PORT RICHEY - The city's utility department has rescinded its boil-water notice. ...more

January 8, 2008

The number of whooping cough cases in the United States has been creeping up, and that has health experts such as Tampa pediatrician Philip Adler concerned. He had whooping cough as a child and remembers how miserable it made him feel. He also remembers the time when hundreds of kids in his small Connecticut town who had whooping cough were rounded up and walked down to the local gas works. "They had us march around [and] breathe deeply, the methane gas seeping out of the gas works," Adler says. Town health officials hoped it would be therapeutic in some way. "They didn't know what to do about it, so they gassed us." ...more

October 18, 2007

The Tribune, on Aug. 27, published an 'other view' written by Peter Pitts, entitled 'One Size Medicine Does Not Fit All.' What Pitts said just wasn't right, at least as far as I was concerned. In essence, he was condemning those who believe in the concept of 'evidence-based medicine.' I believe in it. ...more

September 20, 2007

TAMPA - A freshwater amoeba suspected in two Central Florida deaths within a month is largely a mystery to doctors because cases of the brain infection it causes are so rare. The Florida Department of Health is investigating the two deaths to see whether the victims died from a rare infection caused by a microscopic creature that lives in every body of freshwater in the state. ...more

September 6, 2007