By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Florida state health officials reported 306 new positive COVID-19 cases and nine deaths related to COVID-19 Saturday, bringing the state totals to 30,839 cases and...

Next in the series of interviews from the 4th Annual Amoeba Summit hosted by the Jordan Smelski Foundation, I talked to Asst. Medical Director for Emergency Medicine for AdventHealth, Altamonte Springs. Dr...

In my series of short interviews with the experts presenting at the 4th Annual Amoeba Summit, I look at the topic of laboratory diagnosis. Medical Technologist at AdventHealth in Orlando as the person...

In the summer of 2016, then 16-year-old Florida teen, Sebastian DeLeon wound up in a Orlando hospital diagnosed with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) due to the parasite, Naegleria fowleri. In...

On Saturday, September 14, more than 400 people from the ALS community around the state of Florida will gather at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando to listen to the top ALS researchers and experts to...

In this video, I talk about the upcoming Fourth Annual PAM Summit 2019 in Orlando on September 13, 2019. The event is hosted by AdventHealth for Children and presented by the Jordan Smelski Foundation....

In a follow-up on the hepatitis A outbreak in Florida in 2018, state health officials reported 147 cases from 22 counties in December to bring the annual total to 559 in 31 counties. West Central and...

Florida state health officials have issued a health advisory due to an significant increase of hepatitis A cases reported in 2018. Since January 2018, 385 cases of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection have...

The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) announced that its joint investigation with Office of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has led to the arrest of Dr. Ishrat Sohail for Medicaid...

For the second time since Oct. 2017, rabies has taken the life of a Florida resident–both contracted via a bat bite. It was announced today that 6-year-old Ryker Roque, who was undergoing the...