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Puerto Rican scientific community promotes innovation against microplastics

Submitted on 24 August 2023 - 3:42pm

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Rose Schnabel

Although these tiny particles continue to contribute to the water pollution problem, local researchers are exploring new solutions.


"These are everyday sights in Puerto Rico today," said Jorge Bauzá, pointing to photos of piles of plastic bottles, garbage bags and foam coolers piled up on idyllic beaches.

"We still have a long way to go to change this plastic culture," emphasized the oceanographer and scientific director of the San Juan Bay Estuary Program, during the annual conference of the Puerto Rico College of Chemists -PR Chem- held recently.

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CienciaPR joins the call to integrate San Juan into the municipal contact tracing system

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Ciencia Puerto Rico joins the COVID-19 Wisdom Coalition (COSACO), the Citizen Health Committee (CCS), Vistazo a la Ciencia, Periódico Nuestro, and Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción (MPA) to urgently ask the mayor of San Juan, the Hon. Carmen Yulín Cruz to take immediate action to integrate the municipality of San Juan into the Municipal System for Case Investigation and Contact Tracking (SMICRC). Currently, the capital city is the only municipality in Puerto Rico that does not participate in the SMICRC, despite having the highest incidence of infections and deaths in the entire archipelago. Below we share the full text of the letter.

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ACHÚ, a book to educate children about COVID-19 in a simple and fun way

Submitted on 14 March 2020 - 6:00pm

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The Puerto Rico Public Health Trust (PRPHT), was given the task of developing the “Achú” Activity Book, to educate children about the new Coronavirus COVID-19. The book was created with the idea of ​​raising awareness in children, in a simple and fun way, of the world’s reality in relation to this disease, which is already considered a global pandemic, and nobody is exempt from it.

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The Puerto Rico Public Health Trust (PRPHT) announces the Public Health Research Grant Program

Submitted on 15 January 2020 - 1:20am

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In keeping with its vision of improving the public health of the communities of the Island, the Puerto Rico Public Health Trust (PRPHT) announced today that, as of this Friday , January 10, 2020, it will open the official platform for researchers in the country to submit proposals aligned to public health, towards increasing the understanding of these issues and discuss solutions in partnership with the communities of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Public Health Trust is part of the 16 programs of the P.R. Science, Technology & Research Trust.

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First Post Maria Resilience Summit: Caribbean Strong: Building Resilience with Equity

Submitted on 24 January 2019 - 10:18pm

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Caribbean Strong; under the slogan of Building Resilience with Equity, is the first post Maria resilience summit to be held at the Sheraton Hotel of the Convention Center from February 27 to March 1, 2019.

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Free public health training for volunteers

Submitted on 15 November 2017 - 1:04am

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The workshops will be at the INEDA facilities at UMET Bayamón.

The Metropolitan University in Bayamón will offer free public health disaster training for people who wish to be volunteer instructors in the reception centers of the World Cares Center, an organization in the United States that empowers communities to respond to disasters. The workshops will be offered on November 9 and 10 at the Institute of Environmental Education (INEDA) from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

For the full article, please refer to the Spanish version of this site. 

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Vaccines: Effectives and Safe?

Submitted on 9 August 2017 - 12:43am

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Dialogo Digital

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Nicole Yordán

Vaccination is recognized as one of the most successful and cost-efficient health interventions. However, due to studies that have long be retracted, the scientific community has been fighting the false notion that vaccines are toxic. 

For the full article, please refer to the Spanish version of this site. 

 

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Vaccines: Effectives and Safe?

Submitted on 9 August 2017 - 12:43am

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Dialogo Digital

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Nicole Yordán

Vaccination is recognized as one of the most successful and cost-efficient health interventions. However, due to studies that have long be retracted, the scientific community has been fighting the false notion that vaccines are toxic. 

For the full article, please refer to the Spanish version of this site. 

 

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Link between NAVY bombings in Vieques and congenital defects

Submitted on 21 February 2017 - 9:06pm

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El Nuevo Día

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Cynthia López Cabán

Three professors from the University of Toronto recently published a study linking the U.S. NAVY's bombing activity in Vieques, Puerto Rico and congenital malformations in newborns in the island.

You can read the full version of this article in Spanish by clicking on ESPAÑOL at the top right of your screen. You can also access the original research paper here.

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