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WMNF Daily news digest, called "The Scoop"

The Scoop: WMNF’s daily digest of news headlines for Thursday, April 13th, 2023

Florida execution Louis Bernard Gaskin became the 101st person executed in the state of Florida last night after being sentenced to death for the murder of a north Florida couple in 1989. “Floridians for Alternatives...
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Congress member demands healthcare expansion before millions are unenrolled

Listen: On April 1st, many people may lose healthcare as states review eligibility for Medicaid. Tampa Congress member Kathy Castor is calling for Medicaid to be extended. Florida is one of only ten states that...
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Florida boards block treatments for transgender minors

Florida doctors can no longer provide treatments lilke puberty-blocking medications, hormone therapy and surgery to transgender people younger than 18.
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Florida nurse reflects on impact of Hurricane Ian, hospital recovery

Registered nurse Cynthia Butler of Port Charlotte shares the impact of Hurricane Ian on her hospital and hopes for its recovery.
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Florida nurses rally to demand safe staffing at Oak Hill Hospital

Registered nurses at Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville will join a national day of action Thursday, January 13, to demand the U.S. hospital industry and the Biden administration strengthen protections for the nation’s frontline healthcare...

11.29.21 Dr. Fred Harvey hosts Health & Nutrition- topic: Electromagnetic Frequency

Electromagnetic Frequency toxicity is a constant burden to our sensitive energetic systems. We are energy. EMFs from phones and cell towers, from appliances and vehicles, from all broadcast media to our microwaves and video screens...

A Deadly Virus & A Disturbing Truth

New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook wrote Pandemic, his medical-thriller more than two years before Covid-19. The pulse-pounding story begins when an unidentified, healthy, well-dressed woman is struck down by a sudden respiratory illness on the subway as opportunist...

Women’s Show 6/15 – Toni Van Pelt Running for National President of NOW & Dr. Carol Paris on Health Care

 Are we having any fun yet? 146 days and counting…..  How about a knock-knock joke to cheer you up? Knock-knock… Who’s there? The country. What do you want? To read the health care bill. No...

Women’s Show 3/16 – Trumpcare and Planned Parenthood

Trumpcare is Rigged! Not to worry – health care is and always has been available for all – if you can afford it.  If you can’t, don’t get sick.  It’s hard to imagine after 8...
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Obamacare sign-ups strong in Florida despite uncertainty

Republican leaders in the U.S. House and Senate and in the White House are promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with … something? It’s that uncertainty that has current consumers of...

Women’s Show discusses the real costs of Medicare for All…..and Title IX 2/25

What is the real cost of “Medicare for all?” Even with the Affordable Care Act, 33 million Americans are uninsured and another 15-55 million are underinsured.  Yet by far, American’s pay the highest  health costs per...
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Legislators see little chance for Florida Medicaid expansion

State Rep. Jamie Grant (R-Tampa) thinks that Medicaid expansion will be off the table during Florida’s Legislative session that begins in January. For one, Grant says this week’s gambling agreement “sucks a good bit of oxygen...

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