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Once the needles and tubes are in, the patient may barely notice the IV pump standing next to the hospital bed. But intravenous infusion therapy is providing keys to healing: drips of pain medications for the post-surgical patient, drips of antibiotics for the patient battling infection, drips of saline solution to replenish the patient struggling with bouts of diarrhea.

A vehicle crash will injuries has slowed traffic to a crawl in the eastbound lanes Sunday evening of Interstate 4 near the Kathleen Road exit, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

Two people died in a two-vehicle crash in heavy rain today that has closed West Memorial Boulevard between Brunnell Parkway and North Lincoln Avenue.

U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross of Lakeland will enter an Orlando hospital Monday for an operation to fix a birth defect that could become life threatening.

Three people died in two separate vehicle crashes in Auburndale and Lake Wales, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.