By Omaya Sosa Pascual and Jeniffer WiscovitchCenter for Investigative Journalism The greatest immediate death threat after earthquakes, such as those Puerto Rico has experienced for more than two weeks, are traumas that people may be exposed to in the face of a structural collapse. But Health Secretary Rafael Rodríguez-Mercado has not shared a plan to […]
The Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF, by its initials in Spanish) put the Council on Developmental Disabilities (CDD), an entity attached to the Puerto Rico Planning Board under receivership. This action is intended correct certain serious deficiencies identified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which jeopardize approximately $2.5 […]
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A group of experts from Puerto Rico’s medical cannabis industry will host a forum to discuss the draft of the new Medicinal Cannabis Regulations recently published by the island’s Health Department.
Future Farm and KOM-Agro will conduct this new business venture as co-owners of Natural Health Solutions, LLC.
Puerto Rico Health Department officials confirmed Monday the end of the Zika epidemic on the island, saying levels have substantially decreased since the same reporting period in 2016, with approximately 10 cases reported in each four-week period since April 2017.
The Puerto Rico Health Department has enacted a series of amendments to its medicinal cannabis regulations that impose new restrictions on doctors, patients and businesses while allowing municipalities to operate cannabis dispensaries, announced advocacy group Puerto Rico Legal Marijuana.
Step by step, Puerto Rico’s medical cannabis industry is getting off the ground. It promises benefits for patients and opportunities for entrepreneurs to create new companies and jobs.
Nine months after being selected to participate in the government’s public healthcare program, insurance provider MCS has reportedly walked away in a move that could affect more than 800,000 beneficiaries.
Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club are joining forces with the Health Department in a vaccination drive for children and youth between the ages of two months and 18 years. The health clinics will take place April 25-30 at stores throughout the island.
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