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Agricultural Extention educates students about coral reefs

Submitted on 25 October 2006 - 8:35pm

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The Larga Vida a los Corales (Long Live the Coral Reefs) project, from the Agricultural Extension Service of the Agricultural Sciences faculty of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, oriented students, affiliated to the Juventud Program and 4-H Clubs from 18 municipalities, on how to take care of the marine environment. The children and youth received seven lessons, where they discussed subjects ranging from pollution, sedimentation, and the use of pesticides at home and in farms. They also talked about water quality and environmental protection methods. After the lessons were finished, the students visited a natural environment where they observed marine species and the coral reefs.

Hard to recruit health professionals

Submitted on 23 October 2006 - 2:34pm

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According to the Department of Health, there are 68 hospital institutions in Puerto Rico, including correctional and mental health facilities that have licenses to operate around 12,491 beds. Out of this number, 24% -one in four authorized beds- that go unused. Shortage of health professionals, an exodus of those professionals to the United States, the new dimension of operational risks related to medical malpractice cases, the hike in operational costs, among others, are reasons for all these beds to go pretty much to waste.

May be a genetic disorder

Submitted on 23 October 2006 - 1:27pm

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The high incidence of deaf-mute people in Orocovis, rises the possibility that the condition is a genetic disorder. This municipality in the mountain zone of Puerto Rico has entire deaf-mute families, a lot of them with high levels of consanguinity. Geneticist Alberto Santiago Cornier, professor of the San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, assured that the probability of a genetic disorder is higher in those communities whose isolation promotes marriage among relatives.

Hatchery in the middle of the city

Submitted on 23 October 2006 - 12:49pm

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Students from the Environmental Sciences Laboratory in the Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico are in charge of keeping aquaponic project. This projects aims to grow plants using organic fertilizers from the tilapia fish manure, and at the same time, the plants will serve as a filter so that those fertilizers do not concentrate in the water, harming the fishes.

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Inventors' showcase

Submitted on 22 October 2006 - 3:09pm

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The First Forum of Inventors was a great opportunity to showcase the Puerto Rican creativity, gathering more than a hundred participants that included entrepreneurs, inventors, academics, and state functionaries, with the purpose of promoting the development of new ideas and educating about the resources available to support inventors. The inventors assisting the activity pointed out the importance that the government creates measures to support patenting and commercialization of inventions.

Technological innovation at the service of health

Submitted on 22 October 2006 - 2:00pm

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MD Anderson donated a financial analysis system to the UPR’s Cancer Center, which will help this institution to execute a healthy administrative system, without losing its research focus. This model integrates information from several areas like research, clinical services and pharmacy, among others. This data is integrated with other pieces of information, like funding or donations and revenues from medical-hospital services. The system analyzes all the variables and provides a financial radiography that becomes the starting point for some decision making.

Hyperparathyroidism awareness

Submitted on 22 October 2006 - 1:48pm

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The new Program for the Detection of Secondary Hyperparathyroidism, created by the Renal Council and sponsored by the Renal Division of Abott, wants to raise awareness in diabetic, hypertension and kidney patients about their risks of suffering secondary hyperparathyroidism, a vitamin D and calcium deficiency in the blood, caused by an excessive production of the parathyroid hormone.

Biodiversity in the Caribbean

Submitted on 16 October 2006 - 4:59pm

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The Caribbean ecological hotspot, which group the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles and the Greater Antilles, is one of the of the five, most important, areas for the conservation of global biodiversity. It is estimated that the Caribbean has 13,000 species of plants, of which more than 6,500 are endemic. There are more than 600 species of birds in those islands, of which 160 are endemic. The Caribbean has 90 species of mammals, and more than half are endemic. These islands are very rich in reptiles and amphibians: of 500 reptile species in the islands, 94% is endemic; there are 170 endemic species of amphibians in the region, including the coqui.

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