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Photo by Eduardo Schneider As much as it helps having Suzanne Somers as an advocate—and talking about sex being better than ever after 50, no less—the best advertisement for LowTE Florida might well be the esteemed nurse practitioner who runs the Fort Lauderdale-based business. Five years ago, Carolyn Zaumeyer came home at the end of

Photos by Eduardo Schneider   Harley Bofshever has spent most of his life paying forward the help he received as a teenager. While a high schooler in Coral Springs, he hurt his shoulder playing baseball and tried therapy and injections to stop the pain. It wasn’t until he went to a chiropractor that he found

Margate-Coconut Creek Fire Department Capt. Matt Whiteshield remembers hearing about a 7-year-old boy who was visiting his grandmother for Christmas a few years ago. He was upset because he wouldn’t be home for Christmas and thought Santa Claus wouldn’t be able to find him. But Whitefield made sure Santa paid him a special visit. “His

Most women with early-stage breast cancer do not need chemotherapy to beat it, a 10-year federally funded study has concluded. Conducted at 1,200 sites in the United States and five other countries, TAILORx reflects a diverse population of 10,273 women between the ages of 18 and 75.  “This is a practice-changing study. To know that

Eight years ago, student Stefano Selorio began his professional journey, thanks to Junior Achievement of South Florida. It started when he was in the fifth grade and participated in JA BizTown program, which teaches youths how to run companies through hands-on role playing and handle their personal finances. BizTown resembles an indoor business hub with

While campaigning for a spot on the Coconut Creek city commission in 2008, Mikkie Belvedere got a taste of the city’s diversity but was disheartened to hear some residents lacked local connections. “When I would say to a resident, ‘Could you introduce me to your neighbor?’ [they would say] ‘Well, I don’t know my neighbor.

In a prescient move, a South Florida couple visited Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood last year for genetic testing. They wanted to know if they had genetic mutations that could cause a birth defect in a future child. Both of them tested positively for genes predisposed to autism. Neither had autism, but they were

In her effort to process the suicide of her son, James, Margate resident Annette Singh finds meaning in the lyrics to a Michael Jackson song, “Childhood.” Have you seen my childhood? I’m searching for the world that I come from Cause I’ve been looking around In the lost and found of my heart “No one

If you had to go old school, and seek directions from someone in the nearest mildly populated town (say, Fort Meade, some 15 miles away), you might never find Streamsong Resort amid the back roads of Central Florida. But, thankfully, GPS plots a course that delivers guests to one of the state’s hidden gems when

Noting measles outbreaks and high incidents of vaccine-preventable cancer, the Florida medical community is urging parents to adhere to immunization schedules as part of National Immunization Awareness Month. Florida health officials confirmed four cases of measles in June, according to Deborah Ann Mulligan, professor of pediatrics at the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic

In the nearly six months since 17 people were killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, consensus has been hard to find. Gun-reform issues have sent people to their respective corners. The work of student advocates has been equally polarizing. And lawmakers at the national level have been unable to advance game-changing

For Lynn-sah Joseph of Coral Springs, the Monday before last Thanksgiving reads like a climax in one of her favorite thrillers. “You know when you’re watching a movie,” says the 11-year-old, “and the person is in an ambulance and they’re going to pass out? My eyes kept closing and opening. I wasn’t aware of what