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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 988, the No Patient Left Alone Act, to guarantee Florida families the fundamental right to visit their loved ones who are receiving care in hospitals, hospices, and long-term care facilities. No health care facility in Florida may require a vaccine as a condition of visitation and every health care facility must allow their residents and patients to be hugged by their loved ones. ... Although the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reinstated federal visitation protections for long term care facilities in late 2020, CMS continues to waive visitation...

Hundreds of British couples could have children that are biologically theirs living with other parents around Europe or across the world without knowing, it has emerged. A Spanish clinic runs an 'embryo adoption scheme' where spare embryos are donated to other women if the couple who created them do not know what they want to do with them or do not respond to correspondence from the clinic. Furthermore, anonymity rules in Spain means the resulting children cannot trace their biological parents or vice versa. [...] The spokesman for the clinic said a total of more than 460 babies have been...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Prosecutors argued in court Tuesday that they should be allowed to speak with Rush Limbaugh's doctors as part the investigation into whether the conservative talk show commentator illegally purchased painkillers. Meanwhile, Limbaugh's attorneys wanted the judge to hold prosecutors in contempt for allegedly giving information to the news media, the Palm Beach Post reported. Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, argued that confidentiality between a doctor and patient is a privilege that even criminal investigators cannot penetrate. "They cannot force Mr. Limbaugh to supply their evidence for them," Black said. Assistant State Attorney James Martz said he...

Today President Bush signed the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 at a signing ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. Among those at the signing ceremony was Senator Bill Frist, who reversed his pro-life position in favor of government funding of embryonic stem cell research. President Bush also issued a statement applauding the Congress for their passage of a long awaited energy bill which he has been encouraging them to do for four years. First Lady Laura Bush today spoke at the National Youth Summit in Washington D.C. and met with Iraqi officials in...