Jacksonville Science & Technology News

An estimated 297,600 Floridians lost health insurance coverage this year after losing their jobs, according to a report by Families USA . Only California (661,600) and Texas (396,900) suffered higher losses. The Families USA report is based on the link...

Bad weather prevented space shuttle Discovery from returning home Thursday and kept its astronauts circling the world for at least an extra day. Mission Control skipped the first landing attempt because of wind and rain. The wind eased but the...

Because El Niño continues to strengthen, the November to April cool season should see more rain and cooler temperatures than normal, the National Weather Service said. As part of that, we could see severe weather, including thunderstorms, strong gusts, hail...

P.M. — More than 22,000 women, infants and children enrolled in the Lee/ Hendry/ Glades County Health Department�s WIC program will receive the new, nationally revised WIC food package beginning today. This is the first change to the WIC food...

U.S. researchers have found few complications in prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy after surgery to remove the prostate. Lead investigator Dr. Jennifer Peterson of the Mayo Clinic in Florida in Jacksonville said said the findings from Mayo Clinic's campuses...

A fire and rescue spokesman in Jacksonville, Fla., said department workers found a baby abandoned inside a trash bin at a local shopping mall. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue spokesman Tom Francis said the infant was rescued from a dumpster at...

Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 21, 2009; 3:51 PM The United States is failing to address the urgent threat of bioterrorism, according to leaders of a bipartisan, congressionally mandated task force, which warns that an attack somewhere in...