Existe mucha controversia sobre la manera en que se le asigna el género sexual a los recién nacidos con genitales ambiguos.
Scientists from the Indian National Brain Research Center discover a direct link between smoking and neurological damage. The study will be published in the July issue of the Journal of Neurochemistry.
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.
According to recent studies, coffee, so essential to many Puerto Ricans, is a mayor antioxidant contributor in American diets.
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.
"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."
de Endi.com Sábado, 25 de febrero de 2006 Por Omaya Sosa Pascual end.ososa@elnuevodia.com Los puertorriqueños en Estados Unidos mueren más por hipertensión que cualquier otro grupo étnico, incluidos los negros y demás hispanos, reveló un estudio del Centro para la Prevención y el Control de Enfermedades de Atlanta (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). En la Isla, la hipertensión es una de las enfermedades de mayor prevalencia y la séptima causa de muerte, pese a que existe tratamiento eficaz.
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.
