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Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute is grappling with a major cyberattack that hit Change Healthcare in February.
Hospitals statewide could end up with $1 billion in unpaid medical claims, a trade group leader says.
Nurses rally at three HCA hospitals in southwest Florida as nurses’ union begins bargaining talks with the national hospital chain.
An emergency ban of tianeptine took effect last year. Now, legislators want to write it into state law.
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor wants experts and the FDA to testify about the herb after a Tampa Bay Times investigation.

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  1. Ricky Ortiz, left, poses for a portrait with his father, Daniel Ortiz, while recovering from brain surgeries on Friday, March 15, 2024, in Ruskin.
  2. Jerry Burton, 31, of Tampa, works to lay new asphalt along 49th Street North and 94th Avenue North in Pinellas Park in 2019. A new study from researchers at Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University found that Tampa is seeing the largest increase in nighttime temperatures during the fall months when compared to the biggest cities in the state.
  3. Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute is grappling with a major cyberattack that hit Change Healthcare in February.
  4. Florida lawmakers in 2020 passed a bill aimed at providing heat-illness protections for high school athletes. Meanwhile, more worker heat-safety bills have been filed in Florida than any other state, but none has made it past a single committee hearing.
  5. Michael Sturgeon, 45, examines a dog at Animal Veterinary Clinic in Gainesville on Tuesday, Feb. 27.
  6. Mars Wrigley employee Tammy Steffek folds over a sheeting of Extra gum pellets at the company's innovation lab Jan. 23 in Chicago. From stress relief to concentration aid, gum makers look for ways to make Americans chew again. Mars Inc., which owns the 133-year-old Wrigley brand, thinks it may have an answer: repositioning gum as an instant stress reliever rather than an occasional breath freshener.
  7. A one-dose bottle of the measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine.
  8. Speaker of the House Paul Renner, left, and Senate President Kathleen Passidomo embrace following the traditional "sine die" hanky drop to mark the end of the 2024 Florida legislative session on Friday in Tallahassee.
  9. An exterior view of Manatee Bay Elementary School on Feb. 19 in Weston. The Broward County school district confirmed that a measles outbreak at the school ended on Thursday.
  10. The traditional "sine die" hanky drop signifies the end of the 2024 Florida legislative session on Friday in Tallahassee.
  11. First graders from Lakewood Elementary school, in St. Petersburg, walk through an inflatable colon at the Museum of Science & Industry, Friday in Tampa.
  12. An aerial drone view of the Florida State Fire College, at left, and the Lowell Correctional Institution, in background at right.
  13. The Florida Capitol rotunda, as seen on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in Tallahassee.
  14. Erin Roth, left, is shown in the entrance of her porch along with her neighbor Douglas McVey at her mobile home at the Twin City manufactured home community at 10636 Gandy Blvd. N. in St. Petersburg. Pinellas County is requiring tenants to raise their homes by June or leave the park.
  15. In this Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019 photo, chef Amir Ilan prepares a lab-grown steak during a presentation by the company Aleph Farms, in Jaffa, Israel.
  16. Florida lawmakers are sending a new bill restricting social media for minors to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
  17. Thomas and Susan Dowler in an undated family photo. Thomas Dowler fatally shot Susan Dowler and then himself at the Addington Place assisted living facility in St. Petersburg on Jan. 23. “It’s become obvious to me that Susan will never walk again or be able to stand on her own,” said a note that police found in the couple's condo after the shooting. “I can’t stand to see her like this.”
  18. Nurses from the National Nurses United union protest Monday outside HCA Florida Largo Hospital. The hospital is compromising safety by assigning nurses up to 14 patients, they said.
  19. People stand in line waiting to enter Trader Joe's to buy groceries in Pembroke Pines, Fla., on March 24, 2020. More than 61,000 pounds of steamed chicken soup dumplings sold at Trader Joe's are being recalled for possibly containing hard plastic, U.S. regulators announced Saturday, March 2, 2024.
  20. A Florida woman who says she was struck and dragged by a New York City bus and left partially paralyzed has been awarded $72.5 million in her lawsuit against the city’s transit agency.
  21. Containers of Zyn, a Phillip Morris smokeless nicotine pouch, are stacked for sale at a newsstand Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in New York.
  22. Jae Cancel sits at the window inside a Tallahassee transgender safe house. The safe house was launched in December 2022 by local nonprofit Capital Tea, a group that focuses on transgender outreach. Experts say safe houses are essential to combating disparities as transgender people disproportionately suffer homelessness and other barriers.
  23. Since it was installed in January, the Safe Haven Baby Box at a fire station in Madison, Ala., has received a surrendered infant on two occasions.
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