Author: Dorron Blumberg

Susan G. Komen®, the world’s largest nonprofit funder of breast cancer research outside the U.S. government, today hailed work led by Komen Scholar and Promise Grant Recipient Dr. Matthew Ellis, MB, BChir., Ph.D., FRCP and Komen-funded researcher Shyam Kavuri, Ph.D., which could help improve outcomes for patients with estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer. Their research, published today in Nature Communications, identified several mutations that have never before been associated with poor outcomes in ER+ breast cancer patients – information that could help better direct treatment and guide future clinical trials to prevent breast cancer recurrence and mortality.

On Wednesday, the Florida Department of Health announced its intent to award WellCare with a statewide contract to implement a new service delivery model for the Children’s Medical Services (CMS) Health Plan. CMS Health Plan covers more than 60,000 medically complex children who are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. It is also Florida’s only specialty health plan for children and youth with special health care needs.

The Florida Department of Health is pleased to announce that Dr. Yesenia Diaz Villalta has been selected as administrator for the Florida Department of Health in Miami- Dade County (DOH-Miami-Dade). She was appointed by State Surgeon General and Secretary Dr. Celeste Philip and approved unanimously by the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners.