If you were planning to spend Memorial Day at Picnic Island, you might want to consider a change of venue, especially if you wanted to go swimming. ...more

May 23, 2009

The Hillsborough County Health Department has closed the beach until further notice because recent water quality tests detected elevated levels of bacteria in the water. ...more

May 22, 2009

Next time you have a case of diarrhea that lasts a day or more, chances are better than 1 in 3 that it was food poisoning. As many as a quarter of Americans suffer a foodborne illness each year - though only a fraction of those cases get linked to high-profile outbreaks like the recent salmonella-peanut scare, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...more

February 20, 2009

Wash your hands, folks, especially you ladies. A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do. ...more

November 4, 2008

Wash your hands, folks, especially you ladies. A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do. And everybody has more types of bacteria than the researchers expected to find. ...more

November 3, 2008

TALLAHASSEE -- Advanced computer power is helping a Florida State University researcher assess the cancer-fighting abilities of a new class of drugs. Kevin C. Chen, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering, is using computational analysis to determine how substances known as recombinant immunotoxins can best be modified in order to attack and kill malignant tumors while doing minimal harm to a patient's healthy cells. ...more

July 9, 2008

Researchers have found a surprising diversity of hardy bacteria in a seemingly unlikely place - the so-called sterile clean rooms where NASA assembles its spacecraft and prepares them for launching. ...more

October 12, 2007