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El lado oscuro de las uñas de gel

El empoderamiento que experimentamos cuando nos realizamos una manicura o pedicura es innegable. Hace 10 años las uñas de gel llegaron a desplazar el acrílico en los salones de belleza. La palabra “gel” se refería, en sus inicios, al estado físico del producto para las uñas, pero ahora se usa el término para describir la técnica. Una de las ventajas de este producto es la facilidad con que se “curan” las uñas en una lámpara con luz ultravioleta (UV). Sin embargo, la luz UV es un reconocido mutágeno que contribuye a malignidades cutáneas. Por consiguiente, existe una posibilidad de desarrollar cáncer por esta exposición y definitivamente, esto nos compete a todos.

Op-Ed: How Puerto Ricans fought COVID: Together

 
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and many have yet to learn that the way out of the global emergency is not through individualism and nationalism, but through solidarity.

More than 3 billion people around the world remain unvaccinated, in part because of vaccine hoarding by wealthy nations like the U.S. Beyond the coronavirus’ biology, the main reason COVID-19 continues to rage is such failures of solidarity – in government, public policy, messaging, and civic society.

La pandemia desmejoró la salud mental de los puertorriqueños

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By: 
Charlene Rivera Bonet

"It was an accumulation of many things that lead one to find oneself in that black hole where one falls." This is how Juan Ortiz described his battle against depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. "The thing is that you are slowly falling and you don't realize that you are there," he added.

CienciaPR launches a new educational campaign to promote vaccination against COVID-19

To inspire confidence in COVID-19 vaccines and promote vaccination as an act of solidarity, the non-profit organization Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) has just launched the second public service campaign of the "Aquí Nos Cuidamos Toolkit" under the theme, "Vacúnate, por ti y por mí" (Get vaccinated, for you and for me). This effort coincides with the World Immunization Week declared by the World Health Organization and celebrated from April 25 to May 1 this year.  

CienciaPR launches #AquíNosCuidamosPR, a free community-centered COVID-19 prevention toolkit

To continue promoting education for the prevention of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the non-profit organization Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) developed the "Aquí Nos Cuidamos Toolkit" or #AquiNosCuidamosPR. It consists of four public service campaigns with free informational and educational resources.

Remdesivir es autorizado únicamente como tratamiento de emergencia para pacientes hospitalizados

13 MAYO, 2020 

HUMBERTO BASILIO

El remdesivir, un medicamento originalmente desarrollado para combatir el contagio de Ébola, fue autorizado para administrarse únicamente como tratamiento de emergencia en pacientes graves hospitalizados con COVID-19, en tanto continúa la investigación sobre su eficacia en general contra el virus SARS-CoV-2.

Symptom tracking is vital to control contagion of COVID-19 in Puerto Rico

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Puerto Rico Public Health Trust

Executives from Ponce Health Sciences University and the Puerto Rico Public Health Trust explain how the COVID-19 Epidemiological Surveillance System can help save lives on the Island

History/Microbiology Podcast 3 – Typhoid Fever in a Rural Village of Porto Rico Due to a Surface Well

History/Microbiology Podcast 3 – College of the Holy Cross

Typhoid Fever in a Rural Village of Porto Rico Due to a Surface Well

By: Angel Carrillo, Adeline Gutiérrez Nuñez, Louis Hurtado, Maria Claudia Schubert-Fontes, and Rossangelly Toro Carrillo.

 

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