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As the University of Florida’s Citrus Research and Education Center prepares to celebrate its centennial anniversary, researchers there say that they’re…
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At Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, the landscape is quintessential Florida. There's the marsh area with towering cypress trees and there's the wet…
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A new adult-care clinic in Newtown opened this month. A community-wide partnership aims to make the clinic a ‘one-stop-shop’ for a variety of needs for…
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I’m in a lab at Florida Gulf Coast University, talking to a 4-year-old about every photo in her mom’s camera roll. Her mom, Alana Underwood, asked Curious…
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You might think of syphilis as an archaic sexually transmitted disease. But the number of syphilis cases in Southwest Florida has nearly doubled since…
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Hunting for seashells along Southwest Florida beaches is a common hobby, but how well do you know your shells? Can you tell a ribbed cantharus from a…
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Florida’s tomato growing season is now in full swing and growers are hopeful the industry will rebound after this past season during which farmers saw a…
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A Southwest Florida research company said it has developed a medication to combat Zika. The pill is meant to treat people who’ve already contracted the…
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The rate of babies born premature in Florida and around the nation increased in 2015 according to the recently released March of Dimes Premature Birth…
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More than 200,000 people every year survive a stroke in Florida, but no two strokes are the same, and recovery can be a challenge. A new play opening in…