The big government takeover has to stop. Ever since liberals claimed power, it has been one bureaucratic scheme after another. ...more

July 19, 2009

Gracyn DenBesten sat in her hospital bed and held out her hands. Her doctors placed an enlarged, discolored-looking blob in her palm. ...more

July 4, 2009

Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. ...more

July 2, 2009

I heard Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., saying something to the effect that we don't want a government run health care program because we don't want a government bureaucrat standing between the patient and his/her doctor. ...more

June 23, 2009

Orlando is evaluating All-Star point guard Jameer Nelson for a possible return to the Magic lineup for the NBA Finals that begin Thursday night in Los Angeles. ...more

June 1, 2009

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center recently launched a Web site for cancer patients, their families and others interested in getting an inside look at the Tampa Bay area's hub for oncology treatments. ...more

May 25, 2009

Lowry Park Zoo staff welcomed a baby manatee into the world this week, although the delivery complicates the staff's goal of nursing the baby's injured mother back to health. ...more

May 21, 2009

A Brazilian man with a spear stuck in his head after a diving accident says he is done with underwater fishing. Three days after doctors surgically removed a spear from his brain, Emerson de Oliveira Abreu says "never more" will he get back into the water to fish with spears. ...more

April 3, 2009

It could soon become harder for teens to get a tan in the Sunshine State. ...more

March 25, 2009

Bradley Thomas was an athletic man who loved the outdoors, but that all changed when the infantry soldier's tank was struck by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Doctors say the explosion left the 23-year-old semi-comatose, so the Texas man was brought to Tampa's James A. Haley V.A. Hospital for treatment. ...more

March 11, 2009