Jacksonville Health News

Someone who goes into the Southside’s Memorial Hospital to get treatment for a heart attack can expect to be charged $81,301. But if that patient travels instead to Baptist Medical Center Downtown, just five miles down the road, the bill...

I ate at a Taco Bell right before leaving to board a plane. I did not stop feeling the effects for 6 days. Doctors thought I may have contracted e-coli from the Bell.

Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement." "There is convincing evidence that screening with film mammography reduces breast cancer mortality with a greater absolute reduction for women aged 50 to 74 years than for women aged 40 to 49 years.

The new report shows that few prostate cancer patients had severe side effects within one year of treatment with the university's Jacksonville-based proton beam. Of 212 patients, there were two instances in which the side effects required surgery to fix;...

In the medical desert that is the Westside, those services and many others promised at the new hospital would be novel. But even if it gets built, patients from the Westside will still need to travel halfway across Duval County...

Military-related groups in Florida will get more than $1 million in donations this morning from a nonprofit group that raises funds by running Internet cafes. Jerry Bass from Allied Veterans of the World Inc. said just after 11 a.m. that...