For kids, being sick doesn’t have to mean getting behind in schoolwork. The Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida Wednesday showed off its full-time teacher who helps bring the classroom to their patients’ bedside. For the Healthy State Collaborative, WGCU’s Farah Dosani reports.

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The state legislature passed a bill this year moving inspection of cooking facilities at hospitals, day care centers and nursing homes away from the Health Department.  As of July 1st the inspections are being done by two other agencies – but they’ve hit some snags.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker reports.

The Charlotte County Health Department recently celebrated the grand opening of its new clinic in Port Charlotte – and it couldn’t have come at a better time.  As the unemployment rate increases, so does the number of people without health insurance.  With no job and no insurance more people are turning to public health clinics as their only alternative.  For the Healthy State Collaborative, WGCU’s Farah Dosani reports.

Maine-based biomedical company, Jackson Laboratory, announced Tuesday that the University of South Florida will be their first medical partner in an effort to expand into Collier County. WGCU’s John Davis reports.

An Orlando woman who received a kidney through the Lee Memorial Health system is suing, saying the transplanted organ infected her with HIV. WGCU’s Valerie Alker reports.

A Bradenton city council member has introduced an ordinance that  would ban so-called “pill mills “in the City.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker.

April is Donate Life Month. And it appears more people are becoming organ donors. But, as WGCU’s Luis Hernandez reports, many people still have concerns about the process.

Now that Congress has passed the new healthcare overhaul legislation economic analyst Hank Fishkind discusses its impact to Floridians with Tom Parkinson from WMFE in Orlando.  By some estimates there are as many as 30 million Americans without health insurance and Fishkind says many of them are Floridians.  He says right now that number is about 4 million, but it will continue to rise…

Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa is partnering with Scripps Florida in Jupiter to create designer lymph nodes for patients with cancer. WGCU’s John Davis has more.