All posts tagged "medicine"

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  Can Puerto Rico become a hub for clinical research?

  Consortium to promote island for pharma investigations at May 9 summit

  • Posted April 16, 2018
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  Pharma pressure against drug pricing transparency bill denounced

  S. 371 sent to conference committee

  • Posted December 14, 2017
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  Legislature seeks to control drug prices in Puerto Rico

  Health Department studies reveal people age 65 and older spend $1,710 on insurance copayments

  • Posted December 8, 2017
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  FDA: Drug shortages possible due to Puerto Rico power outage

  Nearly 10 percent of the medicines used by Americans, plus numerous medical devices, are made in Puerto Rico.

  • Posted October 9, 2017
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  Drug shows promise against vision-robbing disease in seniors

  Experimental drug aims to slow the destruction of light-sensing cells in the retina

  • Posted June 21, 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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  Testing wearable sensors as ‘check engine’ light for health

  Interest in wearable sensors is growing along with efforts to personalize medicine

  • Posted January 13, 2017
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  Britain OKs making babies from DNA of 3 people in some cases

  LONDON — Britain’s fertility regulator has approved controversial techniques allowing doctors to create babies using DNA from three people — what it called a “historic” decision to help prevent a small number of children from inheriting potentially...

  • Posted December 15, 2016
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  Surgeon general report: ‘Addiction is not a character flaw’

  In what may be his last significant act as President Barack Obama’s surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy released a report Thursday calling for a major cultural shift in the way Americans view drug and alcohol addiction. The...

  • Posted November 17, 2016
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  With All but 1 Prize Out, Here Are Nobel Winners So Far

  STOCKHOLM — The winners of all but one of the Nobel Prizes have been named in the last week. With the award for the Nobel Prize in Literature set to be announced Thursday, here is a list...

  • Posted October 10, 2016