Health Care

Can these things cure us? How leaders are tackling health issues in Miami

Stories by Miami Herald journalists, with AI summarization

These articles focus on innovative approaches to tackling health issues in Miami through community engagement, partnerships and technology.

A new partnership involving electric cars aims to improve accessibility to prenatal and postpartum care in South Florida, addressing transportation challenges for pregnant women. To address Alzheimer’s research, University of Miami researchers venture into local communities. Technology's role in health care receives attention as well. Innovations like high-intensity ultrasounds offer non-invasive cancer treatments at Memorial Healthcare System. Meanwhile, gene therapy at Jackson Health shows promise in alleviating symptoms of sickle cell disease, changing patient lives dramatically.

Read the stories below to catch up.

Marie Odvil uses a free car service for low-income pregnant mothers provided by Green Cars For Kids in partnership with Freebee and Jackson Health on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, outside of Holtz Children’s Hospital on Jackson’s campus in Miami. By Alie Skowronski

NO. 1: CAN A CAR RIDE HELP YOUR HEALTH? FOR SOUTH FLORIDA MATERNITY PATIENTS, IT’S AN ISSUE

What to know about the transit services for mother and baby. | Published October 7, 2024 | Read Full Story by Michelle Marchante

A caretaker, center, offers cafecito to Asustina Valdes Cabrera, left, while she is tested by UHealth medical researcher Dr. Katrina Celis, right, as part of an Alzheimer study during a community outreach event for the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics where UM researchers performed tests, enrolled new participants and took blood samples to a new Biorespository opening at UHealth’s campus, at Hora Feliz Adult Day Care on Thursday, January 16, 2025, in Hialeah, Fla. By D.A. Varela

NO. 2: HOW A UM LAB IS UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF THE BRAIN. IT STARTS WITH A PERSONAL MESSAGE

What to know about the visits. | Published January 24, 2025 | Read Full Story by Michelle Marchante

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Dr. Omar H. Llaguna, specialist in surgical oncology, looks at a medium that mimics a liver tumor in a human body to demonstrate how a histotripsy procedure works, performed by a HistoSonics medical device during a demonstration at the Memorial Hospital West, in Pembroke Pines, on Thursday June 12, 2025. By Pedro Portal

NO. 3: ‘LIFE JUST CHANGED.’ HOW MIAMI DOCTORS USE TECH TO TREAT CANCER AND SICKLE CELL

What to know about new ultrasound, editing genes and prosthetics. | Published June 19, 2025 | Read Full Story by Michelle Marchante

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Dr. Juan Cendan, dean of FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, speaks during a ceremony announcing the launch of a new clinical, research and academic collaboration between FIU and Nicklaus Children’s Health System on Monday, May 19, 2025, at Florida International University campus in Miami, Fla. By Alie Skowronski

NO. 4: WHAT A UNIVERSITY AND HOSPITAL PARTNERSHIP MEANS FOR HEALTHCARE IN MIAMI

Here are five takeaways. | Published May 22, 2025 | Read Full Story by Miami Herald Archive, with AI summarization

The summary above was drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division. All stories listed were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists.