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• Unemployed and Uninsured

  Ed Normand | November 03, 2009 12:41 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  So far in 2009, almost 300,000 Floridians have lost their health insurance, along with their jobs. The link between health coverage and the rise in unemployment is important, because nearly...

• More Dangers of Distracted Driving

  Ed Normand | November 03, 2009 12:38 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A client of mine was forever maimed in a recent car crash, but she wasn’t even driving. Jane was walking in her neighborhood, in broad daylight, when a car veered off the road, and mowed her...

• Halloween Safety at the Forefront After Clermont Child Struck by SUV

  Angela Pulido | November 03, 2009 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL

  Halloween ended tragically for a Central Florida family, when eight year old Mitchell MittyTrompeter, a third-grader at Clermont Elementary, was struck by an SUV and killed while crossing Highway 50...

• 25-Year-Old Loses Life In I-95 Explorer Rollover

  Eddie Farah | November 01, 2009 9:27 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It seems like we are reporting on these Ford Explorer rollover deaths on a weekly basis. Now there has been another. A 25-year-old Orange Park woman lost her life on I-95 Saturday. The Florida...

• Officials Release Cause of Tragic Bus Accident

  Sandy Grinnell | October 30, 2009 6:05 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its findings on the cause of the bus accident that took the lives of 17 and injured 38 more back in August of 2008. The bus left the...

• The FDA Must Improve Communication to Patients

  C. Todd Alley | October 29, 2009 3:36 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated $1.1 billion dollars to coordinate research and guide investments in comparative research funded by the Act. Some critics suggest that a whole...

• What Should Be Done to Curb Jaywalking?

  Sandy Grinnell | October 28, 2009 4:12 PM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL

  When police try to enforce jaywalking laws, it's often a cause for a lot of verbal bashing by the anti-government, anti-establishment types and even some city officials. See what happened last July...

• Comparative Negligence - Do You Know What it Means For Floridians?

  Jeffrey Meldon | October 28, 2009 11:56 AM | 1 CommentGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  In a recent Florida court case, the jury found three drivers and the Alachua Police Department to be negligent (at fault) in a fiery I-75 and Hwy. 441 crash that left one dead and two seriously...

• The Drug Business, Broadway, and Casper the Friendly Ghost

  John Hopkins | October 27, 2009 9:13 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  “Ghost writing”: a person who writes books, articles, etc. for another who professes to be the author. Drug companies spend billions of dollars advertising drugs that neither I nor you...

• Headphones, Pedestrians and Railroad Tracks Don't Mix

  Eddie Farah | October 26, 2009 5:35 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL

  This is a very sad story to report out of Auburndale, Florida. An 18-year-old high school student was walking along Amtrak train tracks wearing headphones and apparently didn’t hear an...