Julio Ochoa
Julio Ochoa is editor of Health News Florida.
He comes to WUSF from The Tampa Tribune, where he began as a website producer for TBO.com and served in several editing roles, eventually becoming the newspaper’s deputy metro editor.
Julio was born and raised in St. Petersburg, and received a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado and worked at a paper in Greeley, Colo., before returning to Florida as a reporter and as breaking news editor for the Naples Daily News.
Contact Julio at 813-974-8633, on Twitter at @julioochoa or email julioochoa@wusf.org.
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Linda Breen has been self-isolating for months. She's 69 and has a respiratory issue that she says puts her at risk if she were to catch the coronavirus. -
Florida’s largest health insurer is waiving out-of-pocket costs for members who need treatment for COVID-19. -
A fifth person has died in Florida from the coronavirus, state officials announced Monday evening. The person died in Orange County, a release from the... -
Florida has its first two cases of COVID-19 as patients in Hillsborough and Manatee counties tested positive for the virus, officials from the Florida... -
The state is quietly closing offices that provide help to people applying for food stamps and Medicaid in several Florida counties. -
Patients would get expanded access to prescription drugs under a bill in the Legislature that allows pharmacies to operate medication-dispensing kiosks. -
Nearly 700,000 uninsured Floridians are eligible for free health insurance through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, according to a report from the... -
State lawmakers are turning to charity to help uninsured patients get their medications. A bill with bipartisan support would allow pharmacists, doctors... -
The State of Florida is now providing consumers with more information about health care costs. Governor Ron DeSantis visited a Walmart in Palm Harbor on... -
Nearly 100 nursing homes and assisted living facilities were evacuated along Florida's East Coast ahead of Hurricane Dorian.
