All posts tagged "cancer"

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  Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce backs changes to medical cannabis law

  Thanks lawmakers for proposing worker protections, co-op regulator for charter

  • Posted April 1, 2019
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  Aspira Puerto Rico, McCann launch ‘A Media Asta’ educational Campaign

  Effort to raise awareness about alarming rate of infections, deaths in world from sexually transmitted diseases

  • Posted February 8, 2018
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  Ingredient in popular weed killer going on list as cancerous

  Monsanto tried to block label

  • Posted June 27, 2017
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  Turning blood into living drugs to fight cancer

  Immune therapy is hottest trend in cancer care

  • Posted June 12, 2017
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  Drugs score big wins against lung, prostate, breast cancers

  “Uni-drug” may fight many forms of the disease

  • Posted June 5, 2017
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  Gene therapy to fight a blood cancer succeeds in major study

  An experimental gene therapy that turns a patient’s own blood cells into cancer killers worked in a major study, with more than one-third of very sick lymphoma patients showing no sign of disease six months after a...

  • Posted February 28, 2017
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  NY lawmakers: Cuomo is moving to cut funds to fight cancer

  ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to cut $25 million from 39 public health programs that fight cancer, diabetes and other conditions. The Democrat’s administration says it will be up to state health officials...

  • Posted February 22, 2017
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  The Shadow of Cancer and its Impact in Puerto Rico

  On World Cancer Day, we review which are the most diagnosed types of cancer in the island and which are the recommended tests to detect them on time

  • Posted February 4, 2017
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  California Fights Monsanto on Labels for Popular Weed Killer

  It's sold in more than 160 countries, and farmers in California use it on 250 types of crops

  • Posted January 27, 2017
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  Dying from Cancer: Could your Location Determine your Fate?

  U.S. death rate per 100,000 people for all cancers combined dropped from about 240 to 192 — a 20 percent decline

  • Posted January 24, 2017