South Bay Hospital has installed a new surgical tracking system that helps visitors check on the status of friends and family during a surgical procedure. The system is continually updated, allowing visitors to know a change in status faster than in the past. ...more

August 12, 2009

Patients who feel like they are just a number when admitted to large hospitals in the area might be surprised to find they can get health care with a personal touch close to home. ...more

December 31, 2008

Firefighters in Dunedin found and shut off a gas leak at Mease Dunedin Hospital this morning before any patients had to be evacuated. ...more

October 19, 2008

Plans for Habitat for Humanity of Highlands County to build 100 two-story townhouses for workforce housing will go before the county's Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday. ...more

October 6, 2008

You won't get burned at More Sun Tanning. The rates are reasonable, the facility is as clean as an operating room, the skin lotion choices are vast and the staffers are helpful. ...more

July 21, 2008

Weeki Wachee mermaid Cyndi Gay offers a variety of choices at More Sun Tanning. ...more

July 20, 2008

The article I submitted about our life in Betmar Acres was meant to be my last contribution before heading back North. However, thinking it just might be helpful, I thought I would share with fellow readers my health-related experiences of the last few days. ...more

May 9, 2008

Once upon a time, a Dade County educator thought it would be nice to introduce promising teenage science students to the world of medicine. ...more

May 2, 2008

Young Tigers climb to 3-0 behind rare hoop shutout. ...more

February 11, 2008

Christmas is a week from Tuesday. Wow, that means just 10 shopping days left. One if you put things off til Christmas Eve. Considering the increase in the junk e-mail I've been getting, it looks like the 10-day count is just about right. By the way, is it my imagination or is the mailperson-delivered junk mail on the decline as e-mail usage increases? If you haven't already done so it's time to get out all those Christmas movies you have stored away on DVD and VHS. My favorite, I think, is the classic "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. Those are two guys that the word suave was coined for. The movie, in my opinion, is much better for the season than "It's a Wonderful Life." Getting back to e-mails, a friend of mine told me that when he returned from a week's vacation recently he had over 800 of them waiting to be opened. I told him I haven't received 800 messages since Al Gore invented the Internet. "Well," my friend then admitted, "half of them were checking to see how adequate one of my body parts was." Really now. ...more

December 15, 2007