The Biomedical Research Education Program (BREP) of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Medical Sciences Campus (MSC) held its Annual Biomedical Summer Internships for middle and high school students during the month of June.  Twenty three (24) Middle School students and twenty eight (27) High School students from three different educational districts participated in the internships. 

Puerto Rico only produces 15% of the food it consumes, which represents a threat to the archipelago's food security.

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Dr. Emily A. Wang, a CienciaPR member recently published a study that found that former prison inmates are more likely than those who have never been incarcerated to have high blood pressure as young adults and to develop a dangerous thickening of the heart’s left ventricle.

"Although considered to be easy to prevent, brain strokes are the third cause of death, the first cause of permanent incapacity and the main reason of hospitalizations between Puerto Ricans."