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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Young

Trump asks U.S. Congress to prohibit late-term abortion

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump called for curbs on late-term abortion in his State of the Union address (More...)

Health & Science

For one Zika patient, lingering symptoms and few answers

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen at the Laboratory of Entomology and Ecology of the Dengue Branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in San Juan

By Nick Brown

SAN JUAN (Reuters) – It began with what felt like a punch in the throat.

I assumed (More…)

Meteorite whizzes past Cyprus and explodes, lighting up night sky

ATHENS (Reuters) – A suspected meteorite did a close fly-by over Cyprus early on Friday, sending people into consternation over (More…)

Doctors say Haiti ripe for large Zika outbreak, virus under: reported

Residents in Haiti

By Makini Brice

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Posters warning of the dangers of Zika only reached Haiti’s health ministry in August, (More…)

Scientists find deadly scrub typhus bacteria in South America

Picture of a Chigger, known carrier of Scrub typhus in Southeast Asia.

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) – Scrub typhus, a deadly disease common in southeast Asia and spread by microscopic biting (More…)

Singapore says unclear if local Zika strain causes birth defects

Terry Lynn Stubblefield

By Fathin Ungku and Marius Zaharia

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore said on Thursday it did not know if the Zika (More…)

U.S. lawmakers seek compromise on Zika virus funding

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland

By Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers sought on Wednesday to break a logjam over $1.1 billion in funding (More…)

NASA asteroid probe may find clues to origins of life on Earth

Artist rendering of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen in an undated handout image

By Irene Klotz

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – A U.S. space probe was cleared for launch on Thursday to collect (More…)

‘Superbug’ infection related deaths are going uncounted

Kelly and Ryan Breaux sit holding a portrait of their deceased daughter Emma Breaux in their home in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, on June 16, 2016. The husband and wife lost twins, Emma and Talon, to different superbugs that they contracted while in the neonatal unit at Lafayette General Hospital.

By Ryan McNeill, Deborah J. Nelson and Yasmeen Abutaleb

RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – Josiah Cooper-Pope, born 15 weeks premature, did (More…)

Tiny fitbits to keep tabs on the body from within

A dust-sized wireless sensor that makes it possible to wirelessly monitor neural activity in real time when implanted inside the body, is shown on a finger in this handout photo

By Ben Gruber

BERKELEY, Calif. (Reuters) – Scientists are developing dust-sized wireless sensors implanted inside the body to track neural (More…)

Zika virus found in tears of mice – U.S. study

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A new study has found genetic fragments of Zika in the eyes and the tears of laboratory (More…)