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Team from Merck in Arecibo Honored with Pharmaceutical Manufacturing’s 2006 Team of the Year Gold Award

Submitted on 17 May 2006 - 4:47pm

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The Merck Production System (MPS) team from Arecibo, Puerto Rico shared Pharmaceutical Manufacturing’s 2006 Team of the Year Gold Award with a group from Wyeth in Pearl River, N.Y. The MPS Arecibo team was hailed by the jury for "its role in piloting a manufacturing system that is to be rolled out at Merck facilities worldwide. The team engineered major reductions in cycle times, changeover times and inventory, all the while demonstrating uncommon morale, togetherness and sense of purpose."

Donation to help educate professionals in the pharmaceutical and biotechnological field

Submitted on 17 May 2006 - 1:16pm

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"The municipality of Barceloneta donated $300,000 to the Turabo University to purchase equipment for a biotechnology laboratory that will be installed in the new facilities of the Advanced Technological Training Center, soon to be inaugurated in Barceloneta."

New drug to treat invasive breast cancer

Submitted on 16 May 2006 - 3:06pm

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Initial results of an investigation conducted by the Oncological Hospital and the San Juan Community Clinical Program of Puerto Rico’s capital, "revealed that a drug, until now used to prevent osteoporosis, could reduce the incidence of invasive breast cancer in women in 50%."

The University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez expands its territory to Rio Piedras and Humacao

Submitted on 16 May 2006 - 12:48pm

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An agreement reached between the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez (UPRM) and its counterparts in Rio Piedras (San Juan) and Humacao, will allow undergraduate students to take the first two years of engineering in those campuses, then transferring and finishing their degrees in UPRM.

Forming strong collaborations in cancer research

Submitted on 12 May 2006 - 10:57am

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The conference "Puerto Ricans and cancer: the unequal burden", held May 10-12, 2006 in Carolina, PR, gathered "Puerto Rican investigators, from the island and of the United States, that work with Puerto Rican populations, so that collaborations can be established, inform about advances everyone is making and learn what needs to be done."

The crested toad is back!

Submitted on 10 May 2006 - 9:45pm

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"3,500 tadpoles of the Puerto Rican crested toad (sapo concho), coming from Texas, will be released on Thursday in the Karst, so they can live there and help control plagues. The crested toad is an endangered endemic Puerto Rican species."

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