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Master Sgt. Daniel Drennen, 605th Test and Evaluation Squadron flight chief, was awarded the 2014 National Defense Industrial Association Air Force Military Tester of the year award at the annual NDIA Test and Evaluation conference in Springfield, Va., March 2 through  4.

Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast now offers Mazor Robotics Renaissance, a state-of-the-art guidance system for spine surgery.

For residents of Santa Rosa County who are among the 3 million Floridians with hearing loss, help has arrived. Florida Telecommunications Relay, Inc. (FTRI), the nonprofit distributor of amplified telephones for people with hearing loss and speech challenges, is offering a new amplified telephone at no cost to local residents with hearing loss, the company announced in a press release.

At a little more than 1 month old, Nathaniel Bowersox celebrated a major milestone with The Children’s Hospital at Sacred Heart. Nathaniel became the first baby to move into the facility’s expanded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Covenant Hospice and Covenant Alzheimer’s Services is accepting items and volunteers for The GEM, a secondhand boutique, slated to open in the fall.

Legislation approved by the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee would stop insurance companies from insisting that patients “fail first” before covering medical treatments prescribed by their physicians.

The Florida Department of Health recently enhanced its programs in the Division of Children’s Medical Services (CMS).

With your doctor’s OK, you may be able to safely start an exercise program on your own, said A. Lynn Millar, chairman, department of physical therapy, Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina.

Warren “Biggie” Tucker earned his wings long ago when he piloted airplanes and, once, when he jumped out of one.

We feed them, groom them, clothe them and otherwise shell out the big bucks to protect and pamper our pets.