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  • April 13, 2026
AI-based system elevates cardiac care at Manatee Memorial

A new platform helps cardiologists identify blockages and reduces the need for invasive techniques.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • April 13, 2026
Tampa physician's breast cancer detection mission is professional — and personal

Dr. Bethany Niell is studying predictive cancer rates with a heightened sense of urgency.

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  • April 13, 2026
Heart valve replacement device makes Florida debut at Clearwater hospital

The just-approved safety device is used when replacement heart valves are implanted to help with blood flow and reduce complications.

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Sarasota Memorial makes big gains in lung cancer detection, treatment

The hospital outpaces the state and nation in early detection and getting people treatment.

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Naples hospital goes genius level with colonoscopies

Technology enhances but doesn't replace physicians.

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  • April 13, 2026
Naples medical group embraces the beat of AI stethoscopes

A pilot study found 93 people with valvular heart disease.

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  • Anastasia Dawson
  • April 13, 2026
TGH nurses take time back with AI-powered listening tech

The app-based program listens to patients describe their symptoms and converts those conversations into specialty-specific clinical summaries in seconds.

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AI helps Sarasota surgeons with hip surgeries at Doctors Hospital

OrthoGrip Hip AI is a tool that combines AI with live X-ray images during surgery.

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  • April 10, 2026
After four years, $94M St. Pete affordable housing complex is underway

Fairfield Avenue Apartments in St. Petersburg — four years in the making — is poised to become a statewide model of collaboration and overcoming complications.

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  • April 8, 2026
Lee Health turns to robotics to help treat liver cancer

A new treatment system allows doctors to treat — liquify — tumors without damaging healthy tissue.

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  • April 8, 2026
Renovations to Tampa Union Station go full steam ahead

The update, expected to be completed sometime this fall, will be the first major renovation to the train station since the 1990s.

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  • April 3, 2026
Looking back to look forward, Palmetto balances past, present and future

The Manatee County city, which is seeing a boom of sorts, is looking to maintain and promote its character while preparing itself for major changes already in the works.

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  • April 1, 2026
$135M SWFL builder enters affordable housing sector with big projects

Curran Young Construction draws on its past expertise to shift into affordable housing.

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  • March 27, 2026
Hulk Hogan's beer brand looks to grow — while moving beyond iconic pitchman

Real American Beer is grappling with a core business problem: how to evolve beyond an iconic founder without alienating its ride-or-die demographic.

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  • March 26, 2026
Lee resort opens $26M water park, more expansion tied up in litigation

The owners of South Seas on Captiva Island have spent $250 million — at least — on making South Seas a go-to global destination for memory-seeking families. Vocal opposition to more expansion, however, remains.

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