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.

UPR’s Medical Sciences Campus (MSC) is counting fungi spores and pollen in the air of the metropolitan zone to know if they are causes of allergies.

Puerto Rico has a per capita incidence of asthma among the highest in the world, and children are nearly 300 percent more likely to have the respiratory ailment than white non-Hispanic children in the continental United States.