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Yuka Manabe and her team at the Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases aim to improve global health with ...

including the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to the hearings, Kennedy had suggested taking an eight-year break from researching infectious ...

There's widespread confusion and fear among scientists and doctors on the sprawling National Institutes of Health campus and ...

Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, said he will prioritize preventing chronic disease, shifting funding from vaccine and infectious disease research.

New York has ordered a weeklong shutdown of all live bird markets in New York ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends today’s filing of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act in Illinois, which ...

SPRINGFIELD — Fourth and eighth grade students in Illinois ... is managed by the National Center for Education Statistics, within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Fourth and eighth grade students in Illinois generally scored as well or better than the national average in reading and math, according to results of the latest round of ...

Where has bird flu been reported in Illinois? Are my pets at risk? Should I still be eating eggs? Here’s what to know about the avian flu outbreak.

In this review, the implications of survival and dispersal mechanisms are discussed in the context of both the natural environment and infectious diseases. Biofilms — matrix-enclosed microbial ...

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