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Does cancer, kidney disease or high blood pressure run in your family? Knowing your family’s health history is crucial. The holidays are the perfect time to share family health information with your loved ones. The […]

During Thanksgiving, food often takes center stage at gatherings of friends and family. The focus is on turkey, pie and all the sides. But it also can challenge healthy eating habits. Andrea Delgado, a Mayo […]

Comprehensive Directory Aims to Address Health Disparities in Black Communities | Nationwide — In a significant step towards reducing health disparities and improving access to quality healthcare for Black communities across the United States, Find a Black […]

Thanks to advances in Medicine, more than 95% of children with congenital heart disease survive to adulthood in developed countries, including the United States. Despite this, it is estimated that 60 to 90% of them […]

Doctors at Mayo Clinic used a new catheter-based approach to draw out resistant pockets of infection that settle in the heart, known as right-sided infective endocarditis, without surgery. Unless treated quickly, the walled-off infections can […]

September 30, 2024 | Baptist Health Jacksonville and Florida Blue reached a new multi-year agreement which ensures that thousands of Florida Blue members will retain their access to the Baptist Health and Wolfson Children’s Hospital […]

Baptist Health Statement – Sept. 30, 2024, 4:30 pm With time still on the clock, Baptist Health remains actively engaged in good-faith negotiations with Florida Blue. Our current contract extends through midnight tonight. We believe […]

What’s the latest on negotiations between Florida Blue/Baptist Health? Florida Blue continues to negotiate in good faith today, ahead of the deadline at 11:59pm. Florida Blue’s goal remains to reach an agreement that keeps Baptist […]

September 23, 2024 | We are now a week away from the deadline on our current contract with Baptist Health Jacksonville and need the community’s support by urging Baptist health leaders to discuss a reasonable proposal. […]

Heart failure during pregnancy is a dangerous and often under-detected condition because common symptoms – shortness of breath, extreme fatigue and trouble breathing while lying down – are easily mistaken for typical pregnancy discomforts. Late-breaking […]