As a breast cancer survivor, I feel particularly qualified to assert my opinion on the latest U. S. Preventive Services Task Force's guidelines regarding mammograms. I'm uncertain at this point exactly whose best interests are served by this organization, but as one whose "starting annual mammograms at age 40" prevented "one additional death," I hope my story merits publication in your newspaper. ...more

November 20, 2009

Monday morning's call to 7983 Shadow Run Drive was nothing unusual for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. The agency already had been called to the home three times in March, including the night before. ...more

March 31, 2009

A simmering cauldron of domestic violence involving an on-again, off-again couple and their adult children exploded this morning, leaving three people dead inside a house on a normally quiet residential street and one woman wounded, deputies said. Deputies had responded twice this month to the home at 7983 Shadow Run Drive. This morning, they arrived after someone said there was a suicidal person in the home. ...more

March 30, 2009

Cancer patients can use this device to warn health-care professionals not to perform tests on those suffering from lymphedema. ...more

February 20, 2009

After working 28 years for a Park Avenue publishing company in New York, Linda Quirk of Brandon was pretty confident of her job security. ...more

January 14, 2009

After working 28 years for a Park Avenue publishing company in New York, Linda Quirk of Brandon was pretty confident of her job security. ...more

January 13, 2009

The county's three chambers of commerce and Florida Hospital Heartland Division joined together to "Paint the Town Pink" for October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. ...more

October 12, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Through the years, Shady Hills resident Sheri Nelson has established a reputation as a caregiver. This mother of six children worked until recently as a nurse at Tampa General Hospital, has been active in projects and ministries involving home schooling and special needs children, and recently nursed her mother Mary Louise Goulden through her recent bout with ovarian cancer. ...more

October 11, 2008

Julie Nohra did not want to cry, but when she looked out over hundreds of children dressed in pink for a cause close to her heart, her voice broke. ...more

September 27, 2008

Carrollwood Day School turned itself pink on Thursday to kick off National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, held in October. Children from toddlers to teens planted pink impatiens, tied ribbons around trees, laid stepping stones with messages of love and strength and carried banners as they marched around the school track. ...more

September 26, 2008