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In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that ...

One of the changes that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently made to the childhood immunization schedule ...

Idaho growers face a threat from diseases harming potato quality and impacting profits. USDA grants fund research to tackle the growing problem.

By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness month and cancer experts at Intermountain Health want to bring awareness to issues related to cervical cancer, the tests that can warn women about potential ...

Guinea-Bissau's health minister says the government is suspending a Trump administration-backed hepatitis B vaccine study on ...

The FDA has approved a new at-home test for cervical cancer screening that could make early detection more accessible for ...

A confirmed bird flu case at a Georgia poultry farm led to the culling of more than 71,000 birds and triggered a quarantine zone, as experts warn the ongoing HPAI outbreak that began in 2022 continues ...