Community Health Northwest Florida has a new program for pregnant women to help them get the support and services needed for a healthy pregnancy. “Baby Bucks” is designed to provide encouragement to…
Category: Health
All of Us Journey
The Wright Institute for Global and Population Health, housed in UWF’s Usha Kundu, MD College of Health, will sponsor the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Journey, a traveling educational exhibit…
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 meeting and discusses the charities she supports….
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 committee unanimously approved a proposal by United…
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 on Brent Lane and I-110, near its…
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 age 60 and older attain the health…
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 60 and older (Rick Outzen?) attain the…
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 focused on the mental and physical health…
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 Sheriff, Mickey Stines, shot County District Judge…
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 5 and the lease being approved at…
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 Community, Whole Child model. Inweekly found one…
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 Population Health housed in the Usha Kundu,…
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, Ladapo provided guidance against COVID-19 boosters for individuals…
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 and cats, countless piles of trash, and…
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 concerns as they try to raise their…
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 Project USA helps provide food to children…
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. “The research here is spanning from the…
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 Health (Department), the Department has begun direct…
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 to increase coverage rates in the state….
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 mastermind of the historic 1997 settlement. From…
