Author: Carma Henry

       As part of the initiative, MammoLink will bring its mobile screening unit to Lauderdale Lakes to provide 10-minute mammogram appointments with same-day results. The screening opportunity is designed to make preventive breast health services more convenient and accessible to the community.

Hillsborough County accounts for nearly nine in 10 locally acquired infections as health officials urge residents to take precautions against mosquito bites.

       For Edward L. Parks Jr., professionally known as EPiK, creativity has long been a way to connect with people. Through music, graphic design and memorial programs, he has helped others celebrate milestones, honor loved ones and tell their stories. Now, the Fort Lauderdale entrepreneur is sharing his own in What Disability? An EPiK Story. Book Signing: Meet the Author.

MammoThon 2026, a month-long event offering 3D screening mammograms for just $75 to self-pay, uninsured or underinsured women in the community, no prescription or referral necessary.

   There is more emphasis today on health-related matters. Research shows we are living longer and have a better quality of life. It is safe to say that healthcare has improved and is one of the reasons for seniors being more active these days.

       In March 2025, kicking off his assault on workers’ wages, Trump rescinded a Biden administration executive order that had increased the minimum wage that federal contractors must pay their workers who are employed in government services. These 400,000 workers included janitors in federal buildings, food service workers, cashiers in gift shops and national parks, and security guards. Thanks to Trump’s action, the minimum wage for these workers fell from $17.75 to $13.30 an hour, a 25 percent pay cut.

       It appears the media and government were pretending all was hunky-dory with the high alcohol-related death count before the two Ole Miss students allegedly died from using Kratom. Compared to its high death count and economic cost, alcohol is a gaping wound and Kratom is a pin prick.

       China’s President Xi Jinping’s sixth visit to the US has come and gone. Expectations were low for any kind of breakthrough on longstanding issues such as Taiwan’s status, human rights, the SCS, and especially tariffs. 

     On September 30, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey will host her regional counterparts at a “pro-nuclear summit” at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, for the public to supposedly learn about the so-called safety and benefits of “advanced” nuclear energy. Protesters will be there in droves, led in part by the Clamshell Alliance, which began exposing the perils of atomic energy half a century ago. The dangers nukes pose haven’t changed; 21st century marketing has.

     Do you remember the Wendy’s commercial where the lady asked the question, where’s the beef? Clara Peller, an actress made that line famous. At one point years ago, that was a popular tagline.