Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and first lady Casey DeSantis held a news conference in Polk County to announce independent state testing of baby formulas for the presence of heavy metals and pesticides.

Florida officials are plowing ahead with a proposal to roll back certain vaccine mandates for the state’s schoolchildren.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo praised national advocacy group Moms for Liberty for supporting his efforts to eliminate vaccine mandates for school children. He also urged members to help push legislative changes for all vaccine mandates with lawmakers in Tallahassee.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others held a news conference in Tampa to highlight state cancer initiatives.

It’s official: the Florida Department of Health is beginning to create the rule that will get rid of some vaccine mandates in Florida. Here's how you can stay up-to-date on it.

The governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina have signed orders intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions.

Florida has a plan to drop school vaccine mandates.

Dr_ Joseph Ladapo, a Nigerian-born physician with impeccable U_S_ medical credentials, says that requiring vaccinations for diseases like measles, polio and chickenpox amounts to government-imposed “slavery.”.

President Donald Trump said vaccines that work “should be used,” when asked to weigh in on a plan by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to end vaccine mandates in the state Friday.

The announcement that Florida leaders will try to eliminate vaccine mandates in the state drew praise and criticism across the state.

Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and citizens safe from infectious diseases.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo has announced that he would begin work to end all of the state’s vaccine mandates.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference in Jacksonville.

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general and one of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ guest speakers at the news conference, said in part, “there simply isn’t enough justice to go around.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference at a wedding venue near Dade City, where he signed a bill banning fluoride in water systems statewide.

The city of Titusville says it’s already begun the process of removing fluoride from its water supply in light of SB 700, the bill sent to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis which calls for just that and more.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced his intention to sign a bill that bans local governments from adding fluoride to the community water supply.

For decades, we’ve added fluoride to water here in Florida — but the issue has recently gained much more traction.

As cities and counties across the state debate the issue, the Florida Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would prevent local governments from adding fluoride to water supplies.

Commissioners in Seminole County voted on Tuesday to end its decades-old fluoridation program, becoming the latest local government to remove the additive from drinking water.

Council members Tuesday night approved restoring a controversial chemical to drinking water for the city and other communities.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a new front on his war against vaccine mandates Wednesday, urging lawmakers to ban all mandates for mRNA-related vaccines.

City leaders in Longwood could decide Monday night whether to remove fluoride from the city’s water supply. The city commission meeting starts Monday evening at 6 p.m. at the commission chambers.

Tavares City Council members voted to remove fluoride from the city’s drinking water supply.

The city of Leesburg will move forward with plans to add fluoride to the city’s water supply despite concerns from Florida’s top doctor.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends that 0.7 mg of fluoride are added per liter of public drinking water. So, how much would you have to drink to surpass the daily limit, and what would happen?

The city of Tavares could decide to remove fluoride from its drinking water systems after recent guidance from the Florida Department of Health.

A federal judge has continued to block the head of Florida’s health department from taking any more steps to threaten TV stations that air commercials for an abortion rights measure on next week’s ballot.

Medical marijuana patients and advocates are upset that the Florida Department of Health emailed its patient registry to praise Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for signing the state budget.

A federal judge has struck down part of a Florida law regarding gender-affirming care this week, calling it unconstitutional and claiming it was created based on animus, not a legitimate state interest.

Research from Project Opioid revealed the number of overdose deaths declined 2% in Florida in 2022, for the first time since 2018. Seminole and Orange counties saw a decrease of 11%.

Summer’s here, school’s out and the heat is on, which means a lot more time to spend in the water.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Sanford.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference in Bonita Springs.

Thirteen people have been arrested more than a year after six people were shot along a road in Seminole County, leaving an innocent woman dead.

Florida’s controversial surgeon general is drawing criticism for his handling of an elementary school’s measles outbreak, telling parents of unvaccinated children it is their choice whether their student attends class.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference Wednesday morning at the Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee.

CVS Pharmacy tells us many stores here in Central Florida have already begun rolling out the vaccine.

Florida's top doctor is now going against the CDC when it comes to the updated vaccine for COVID-19.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s top health official are directly contradicting federal health recommendations and warning residents against the new COVID booster.

Thursday morning in Jacksonville, during a Coronavirus-themed news conference at a Southside Irish pub, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo urged a crowd to trust Gov. Ron DeSantis on COVID-19 “instead of all these PhDs and MDs.”

Statistics from Florida’s Department of Children and Families show 44 children have died so far this year in our state.

A federal judge is blocking parts of a new Florida law blocking gender-affirming care for transgender youths — but only for some of the parties in the lawsuit.

Three health care bills, including one giving healthcare providers a right to deny patient services based on beliefs, were signed into law Thursday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

An analysis that was the basis of a highly criticized recommendation from Florida’s surgeon general cautioning young men against getting the COVID-19 vaccine omitted information that showed catching the virus could increase the risk of a cardiac-related death much more than getting the shot.

U.S. health agencies have sent a letter to Florida’s surgeon general, warning him that his claims about COVID-19 vaccine risks are harmful to the public.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis introduced a package of proposals Tuesday to make permanent bans on COVID-19-related restrictions in Florida, from mask requirements to medical professionals’ ability to disagree with those COVID-19 restrictions.

A group of University of Florida medical-school faculty members challenged controversial guidance by state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on COVID-19 vaccinations, but a university official said Wednesday the guidance is outside the scope of Ladapo’s work with the school.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on the Florida Supreme Court to impanel a grand jury to investigate any wrongdoing involving the COVID-19 vaccine.

Doctors will no longer be allowed to provide treatments such as puberty-blocking medications, hormone therapy and surgery to transgender people younger than 18, under rules approved Friday by the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine.

With concerns rising about a possible winter surge of cases, a panel of experts has unanimously voted to add the COVID-19 shot to the list of recommended vaccines for children.

Tuesday on Twitter, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo stated that regardless of what the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) decides, “nothing changes in FL.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a news conference in Lakeland.

The Florida Board of Medicine voted Friday to adopt state guidelines that would ban and restrict gender dysphoria treatments for children and adolescents.

The Florida Board of Medicine is set to discuss state guidance against gender-affirming treatments for children at its upcoming meeting.

State Sen. Randolph Bracy, D-Orlando, is set to hold a news conference Thursday discussing the reopening of a children’s vaccination site in Maitland after it was postponed due to a lack of shots.

Hours after State Sen. Randolph Bracy announced a plan to host a COVID-19 vaccination event for children, he said they are postponing it.

The World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus cases rose by 18% in the last week, with more than 4.1 million new cases reported globally.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday held a news conference at Broward Health Sports Medicine in Fort Lauderdale.

Florida’s health care agency will hold one public hearing on a proposed rule that would stop Medicaid payments to gender-affirming treatments for children and adolescents.

Florida health officials have asked the state medical board to draft new policies that would likely restrict gender dysphoria treatments for transgender youth.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis praised the drop of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for athletes competing in the Special Olympics in Orlando.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo wrote members of the Department of Health’s board about gender dysphoria treatments for children and adolescents Thursday.

Nearly eight months after News 6 submitted a public records request seeking emails and other communications created by Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo during his first two weeks on the job, the Florida Department of Health released eight pages of un-redacted documents.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference in Sanford.

The Florida Department of Health is withholding records of Dr. Joseph Ladapo’s communications during his first two weeks as Florida's surgeon general.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a “No Patient Left Alone” bill into law Wednesday, establishing in-person hospital and nursing home visitation rights throughout the state regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo says the state will formally recommend against COVID-19 vaccinations for healthy children.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rebuked reports that he admonished a group of mask-wearing students who stood behind him at a news conference in Tampa.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference Thursday morning at Florida State University Panama City.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo have announced new coronavirus policy recommendations that discourage mask wearing and push physicians to use off-label medications to treat the virus.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has been officially confirmed to his position.

Ladapo was confirmed on a party-line vote of 24 to 15, with Democrats saying Ladapo was dangerously unqualified, while Republicans said he was a man who “looked at the facts,” as one senator put it.

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo declined to disclose whether he has received a coronavirus vaccine during a contentious confirmation hearing where Democrats pressed the state’s top doctor to promote the shots.

A former supervisor of Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo declined to recommend Ladapo to lead the state’s health department during a background check, records show.

A Senate committee signs off on the confirmation of controversial state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis discussed the recent decision made to cancel state-run monoclonal sites at a news conference Wednesday afternoon in Miami.

With the continuation of long lines for COVID-19 testing, one local leader is calling on the state to help Osceola County residents.

The Florida Department of Health issued new COVID-19 testing guidelines Thursday in an effort to alleviate sites seeing high demand as the omicron variant continues to fuel new cases.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday the state will send “up to a million” at-home COVID-19 tests to nursing homes and long-term care facilities this week.

Saying that the “federal government is not going to come through” on a plan to distribute at-home coronavirus tests, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday said the state is honing its own strategy to send tests to vulnerable Floridians.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday held a news conference in Jacksonville, which was delayed by a group of citizens and activists who wanted to question the governor about his pandemic policies, to put more political pressure on the Biden Administration to release more monoclonal antibody treatment doses to Florida.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed four bills Thursday at a car dealership in Brandon, Florida, aimed at pushing back against federal COVID-19 mandates.

Florida Republicans have approved a sweeping bill to hobble coronavirus vaccine mandates in businesses.

Florida Republicans have approved a sweeping bill to hobble coronavirus vaccine mandates in businesses.

Florida's surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, is now responding days after he was asked to leave a meeting with Democratic state Sen. Tina Polsky — who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer — because he refused to wear a mask.

Florida's top health official was asked to leave a meeting after refusing to wear a mask at the office of a state senator who told him she had a serious medical condition.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference in Titusville Wednesday morning.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is gearing up for another legal fight with the federal government as President Joe Biden plans to release an executive order that will mandate companies with more than 100 employees to require vaccinations for workers or submit them to weekly COVID-19 testing.

First Lady Casey DeSantis has stepped down as chairwoman of the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet, four days after it was announced she was diagnosed with breast cancer, the governor’s office said Friday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced Florida parents will now have the choice if they should send their child to school if they were exposed to someone who tested positive for the coronavirus.

Florida’s new surgeon general has signed new protocols allowing parents to decide whether their children should quarantine or stay in school if they are asymptomatic after being exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19.