Fiji is Healthy to Visit Again as Dengue Outbreak Ends

(Vax-Before-Travel News)Throughout 2025, many countries in the Pacific Region reported dengue fever outbreaks that affected thousands of people and disrupted vacation plans. A popular travel destination has announced some positive news. The...

Medical student inspired by home in Puerto Rico

Smart Moves at Visit Orlando, Discover Puerto Rico, PRA, Wolfgang Puck and More

Austin Seeley Louisville Tourism is pleased to announce that Austin Seeley has transitioned to the organization’s sales team as convention sales manager. He served as destination services manager for two and a half years, providing exceptional...

Making waves: Singapore doctor to swim in 3 iconic waterways to raise $1.5m for St Luke’s Hospital

SINGAPORE – His 192km swim in the frigid waters of New York’s Hudson River in 2023 did not freeze out his determination to stage a second fund-raising effort for St Luke’s Hospital in 2025, with a target of $1.5 million. In fact, navy doctor Chua...

Puerto Rico trade surplus falls to $4.2B in fiscal ’25

Puerto Rico’s annual trade balance, exports and imports from 2010 to 2025. The chart shows the steady decline of the trade surplus since its peak in 2016, driven by falling exports and rising imports. (Credit: Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics)...

WCC recognizes allied health graduates

Thirty-eight students graduated from Wayne Community College’s Workforce Continuing Education Services’ Allied Health programs. Nurse Aide I and phlebotomy graduates during a recent ceremony received pins and certificates, signifying the...

South Side neighbors use bus tour to show health concerns, call for change in San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO – As dozens of people stepped out of a tour bus and lined the side of Quintana Road on Friday morning, Cheyenne Rendon looked to the sky. “Welcome to the South Side,” she yelled. At the same time, a train chugged on Amtrak tracks as...

Expanding Health Services for Patients in Hard-to-Reach Places

By Staff Over the past week, Direct Relief has shipped 769 shipments of requested medical aid to 47 U.S. states and territories and 14 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 11.5 million defined daily doses of medication. Medications and...

Puerto Rico's schools are unequipped to cope with ever hotter heat waves

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CPI Sues ASSMCA for Withholding Data on Mental Health Care for Incarcerated People

San Juan, PR – Although more than 5,000 incarcerated people in Puerto Rico require mental health services, details about the personnel and forensic psychiatric hospitalization services available to them remain unknown. The Administration of Mental...

Mass. secretary of veterans affairs and former state lawmaker to step down in fall, return to health care roots

Dr. Jon Santiago, who as Massachusetts’ secretary for veterans services oversaw efforts to improve the state’s troubled soldiers’ homes, will step down from the Cabinet position this fall. Santiago, a 43-year-old Democrat from Boston’s South End,...

Puerto Rican Chocolate Is Making a Comeback—and These Are the Bars to Buy

Americans love chocolate. U.S. citizens eat some 10 pounds of the stuff per person each year, and an increasing demand has contributed to shortages and skyrocketing prices. But in Puerto Rico, quality-focused farmers are shaking up the global...

University of Kentucky-Bred racehorse euthanized in Puerto Rico, advocates demand reform

(LEX18) — Advocates for horse welfare are speaking out after what they call an alarming pattern: an astonishing number of horses being raced to death in Puerto Rico — including one bred at the University of Kentucky. Lexington has long held the...

Subsidiary of Puerto Rico Prison Health Firm Sued Over Missouri Jail Death

A Florida-based subsidiary of Physician Correctional, Puerto Rico’s private prison health care provider, is being sued in St. Louis, Missouri, over the death of a jail detainee who allegedly convulsed for 20 minutes after being placed in a...

From 'Morbius' to 'Hit Man': All 14 Adria Arjona Movies So Far, Ranked

Adria Arjona has made a huge name for herself over the past 10 years. The Puerto Rican actress has been working steadily since 2015 and has been cast in both starring and co-starring roles, honing her craft on both the big and small screens....

Trump Tariffs Spur Manufacturing Boom in Puerto Rico

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] President Donald Trump’s “America First” tariff policies are boosting manufacturing in Puerto Rico, an island he has both attacked and claimed to help more than any other U.S. leader....

Hospital del Maestro starts financial restructuring process

Hospital del Maestro in San Juan Hospital del Maestro has announced the start of an operational restructuring process in response to the financial challenges the San Juan institution has faced in recent years. “It has been a complex process that...

Trump’s America First Tariffs Gives Puerto Rico a Surprise Lift

Millicent, headquartered in Northern Ireland, has committed to investing $45.5 million in Puerto Rico and creating at least local 73 jobs over the next five years. Frank Rodriguez, president of the company’s Puerto Rico operations, said Millicent...

A new pharma factory shows how hard it could be for drugmakers to outrun Trump's tariffs

HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. — A hallway as long as three football fields connects four buildings at Fujifilm Biotechnologies' new biologics manufacturing plant in Holly Springs, North Carolina. The first two buildings are preparing to open this fall to...

Study: Pharmaceutical supply chain threatened by weather disasters

An American Cancer Society study suggests climate change-driven weather disasters like hurricanes, wildfires and floods pose an immediate threat to the U.S. drug supply chain. Photo by Caroline Brehman/EPA Climate change-driven weather disasters...