Category: Health
Real News 10/14/24: Bergosh, Brahier, Breast Cancer and more
Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh discusses OLF-8 and shares his views on countywide districts for commissioners. Pensacola City Councilwoman Jennifer Brahier recaps last week’s council…
Daily Outtakes: Escambia Children’s Trust committee sends $4.2 million program to board
Over the summer, nonprofits have tried to figure out the Escambia Children’s Trust’s (Trust) Healthy Schools Escambia. On Friday, Oct. 4, the Trust’s grant review…
Inweekly: Neighborhood lost its ‘Beacon of Hope’
On Sept. 23, Baptist Hospital celebrated the one-year anniversary of moving from its “legacy campus” in a predominately Black neighborhood to its $650-million new campus…
Real News: UWF football; IHMC needs couch potatoes, old ones
Dr. Marcas Bamman has received a $7.7 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a clinical trial aimed to determine how people…
IHMC may study Rick Outzen and make him exercise
Dr. Marcas Bamman has received a $7.7 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a clinical trial to determine how people age…
CDC responds, Escambia Children’s Trust program untested
cThe program is based on the CDC’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model. Inweekly asked the CDC to explain the model. The program is…
Real News: Housing, Murder, Nursing, Voting and more
Mayor D.C. Reeves discusses why he supports the Community Land Trust. A 20-year friendship came to a devastating end when the Letcher Co, Kentucky elected…
Presser notes: Parcel 5, Gibson School, Baptist old campus
Mayor D.C. Reeves covered several topics today. WEAR-TV and Inweekly were the only reporters at the press conference. PARCEL 5 “After the conversation about Parcel…
Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child
Escambia County Children’s Trust will soon launch a new program, Healthy School Escambia, based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Whole School, Whole…
Real News: Global Health, Argo Football and more
UWF alumni Stephen ‘81 and Mona ‘79 Wright are investing in the University of West Florida to create the Wright Family Institute for Global and…
Another weird Ladapo moment
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo continues discouraging Floridians from using the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. On Sept. 13,…
Beggs Lane encampment on the clock
The homeless population at the Beggs Lane encampment runs the gamut from hard-working, minimum-wage earners to substance abusers to sexual predators. Dozens of stray dogs…
Daily Outtakes: Mental Health still a problem
This week, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned in an advisory that the mental health crisis is weighing heavily on parents struggling with economic and societal…
11th Annual Backpack Project USA Family Fishing Rodeo
The 11th Annual Backpack Project USA Family Fishing Rodeo benefiting students in Escambia County will be held Sept. 5-7 at Grand Lagoon Yacht Club. Backpack…
Real News visits IHMC
Today, we broadcasted from IHMC in downtown Pensacola. Marcas Bamman is a Senior Research Scientist and Director of Healthspan, Resilience, and Performance Research at IHMC….
FDOH notices public of June breach
We received this public notice yesterday. PUBLIC NOTICE: FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Tallahassee, Fla. – Following a recent cybersecurity incident impacting the Florida Department of…
Daily Outtakes: Florida ‘hostile’ toward covering kids’ health insurance
Roadblocks to health persist for kids in FL By Eric Tegethoff, Florida News Connection Health insurance prospects for Florida kids are not improving, despite pushes…
Thank you, Fred Levin
This week the News Service of Florida provided the list of future payments from Big Tobacco to the state of Florida. Fred Levin was the…
National Health Center Week
Every August, the National Association of Community Health Centers sponsors National Health Center Week to celebrate and increase awareness of America’s 1,400 Community Health Centers….
OneBlood hampered by ransomware attack
OneBlood, the not-for-profit blood center serving much of the southeastern United States, announced its critical software systems utilized to manage its daily operations are starting…
