President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist to science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science. ...more

December 20, 2008

There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a "war on science." ...more

May 12, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Bridgeport Center Sold Flagler Development Group of Jacksonville has acquired its first Tampa property, paying $29.5 million to buy the nine-story Bridgeport Center, 5201 W. Kennedy Blvd., from Boston-based AEW Capital Management. Mike Davis, senior director for Cushman & Wakefield, which brokered the deal, said Bridgeport Center is the area's first major office building to trade hands since the credit crunch hit Wall Street in November. Davis said the 170,924-square-foot building in the West Shore business district sold for nearly as much as Cushman & Wakefield estimated it would before the credit troubles. The deal proves buyers remain bullish about commercial properties in the Tampa Bay area, Davis said. ...more

February 2, 2008

TAMPA-- El testimonio de mexicanas, cubanas y puertorriqueñas con historiales personales o familiares de cáncer podría ayudar a salvar vidas hispanas. Esa es la meta que se ha trazado el Instituto de Investigación y Centro de Cáncer H. Lee Moffitt, en Tampa, con un estudio que está realizando exclusivamente entre mujeres hispanas a nivel local. ...more

January 25, 2008

Scientists have taken a key step toward revealing the causes of prostate cancer, finding that a combination of five gene variants dramatically raises the risk of the disease. Added to family history, they accounted for nearly half of all cases in a study of Swedish men. ...more

January 17, 2008

They are like something out of a nightmare. Sea lampreys have a slimy, snakelike, muscular body capped by a suction-cup mouth ringed in teeth - along with a sharp probing tongue and a primal urge to suck blood. ...more

September 28, 2007

Gov. Charlie Crist wants to 're-fire' the state's cooling economy by spending down state reserves and trust funds. ...more

September 13, 2007

My 2-year-old has had four ear infections this past year. The most recent one lingered, even though we bombarded it with antibiotics. My pediatrician finally decided to send me to an otolaryngologist to see about getting tubes in her ears. ...more

September 6, 2007