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Dept. of Health promotes HPV vaccine

Submitted on 26 January 2005 - 11:15am

This article is reproduced by CienciaPR with permission from the original source.

The Department of Health is promoting vaccination against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which could cause cervical cancer.

Puerto Rico baffled by high asthma rate

Submitted on 6 January 2005 - 12:13am

This article is reproduced by CienciaPR with permission from the original source.

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.