The Highlands County Health Department continues to wait for more shipments of the swine flu vaccines to open a vaccination clinic for residents. The first batches of the vaccines have been delivered to local pediatricians and obstetricians for children and pregnant women who are at higher risk for complications. ...more

October 22, 2009

Friends of those who lose their loved ones are there for them through the funeral. ...more

January 12, 2009

Tony Caparello, the acclaimed artist who painted the "Brooksville Raid" mural in downtown Brooksville, died Friday after open heart surgery at the Morgan Heart Hospital at Morton Plant in Clearwater. ...more

January 10, 2009

A vocal watchdog of city government and former city commissioner, Tom Osborne, died Thursday morning. ...more

July 12, 2008

DUNEDIN – A vocal watchdog of city government and former city commissioner, Tom Osborne, died Thursday morning. ...more

July 10, 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