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13-Year-Old Campaigns for Lifesaving Heart Test for Infants

April 4, 2013 - 6:00pm

Thirteen-year-old Sophie Phillips is a very motivated young lady. The Port St. Lucie eighth grader is leading a campaign to try to save babies with heart defects.

She's walking the halls of the Capitol, visiting lawmakers and telling them about a new test for newborns. Its called a Pulse Oximetry Screening. Its regular application is crafted inHB 81, "Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Failure."

The test is fast, cheap and painless, and can detect congenital heart defects.

Thanks, Roger

April 5, 2013 - 6:00pm

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Five Questions for Gwen Graham

Florida Legislative Leaders ID Toughest Vote Cast

A Look at NRA Safety Plan as Senate Ramps Up Gun Bill

Hillary Clinton Readies a 2016 Campaign

Red Carpet-Bombing to Save the Girls

April 5, 2013 - 6:00pm

The striking juxtaposition of the preternaturally perfect Angelina Jolie, waifish and wispy in a ghostly gown, and the scrappy Pakistani schoolgirl Malala, her face cruelly misshapen by the effects of a Taliban bullet to the head, captures the confluence of feminine power assembled here to "lean on" the world to save women and girls.

Fighting Begins for Panhandle State Senate Seat Open in 2016

How They Cover the News

April 5, 2013 - 6:00pm

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