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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is supposed to figure out which medical treatments work best. But there are sharp political and scientific disagreements over how to do that.

It's easy to spot what Alzheimer's patients have lost — memory, communication skills and more. But a study that sent medical students and dementia patients to art classes opened new vistas for all.

Florida’s charter schools are pushing for a dedicated construction funding source. The state now has nearly 700 charters across the state, but a major...

Governor Rick Scott and the Cabinet voted Wednesday to appoint John Steverson as secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. The move came...

Iran will need at least a year to produce the material needed for a bomb, up from the current two or three months, the president says. But he acknowledges that those limitations will fall away.

About 43 homeless Jacksonville residents are getting new apartments this month, thanks to a local nonprofit. Some of those people moved in Tuesday.Gary…

Pending Mayor Lenny Curry’s signature, the nonprofit that runs Hemming Park can soon use $150,000 from the city, which was withheld last month. The cash…

Dozens of inmates claim they suffered violence after the prison break in Dannemora, N.Y., earlier this summer. State officials say they have been investigating the claims for weeks. They will not say who perpetrated the alleged abuse, or who authorized the decision to move inmates housed near the escapees to other prisons or to solitary confinement. Two prison workers are charged with helping the escaped inmates, but no other prisoners have been charged.

A new smartphone app is helping St. Augustine visitors take a walking tour of the 450-year-old city.Plans are in the works to expand the high-tech tours…

A cancer was discovered during a recent liver surgery. Carter says he will undergo treatment at Emory Healthcare in Georgia.