Puerto Rico/Drug Infested/Zombie Island-Documentary-Eye Opening
Puerto Rico/Drug Infested/Zombie Island-Documentary-Eye Opening – pls subscribe for updates and breaking news.-this video shocked me! Puerto Rico has 3.7 million residents, a storied capital, more than 300 miles of stunning coastline, an average temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit — and, in 2011, a homicide rate more than five times that of the mainland US and higher than that of Mexico. It badly needs federal help to curb this drug-fueled violence. But so far, the US government is treating Puerto Ricans as if they were second-class citizens. Geography is partly to blame for Puerto Rico’s plight. If Mexico had the misfortune to be, in the late Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz’s words, “so far from God, so close to the United States,” Puerto Rico’s bad luck is to be so close to South America and to the southern US It is an ideal transshipment point for illegal narcotics in the Americas. And with open ocean between it and Africa and Europe, it’s a good point of departure for illicit shipments to those two continents. As the US and Mexico have cracked down on the drug trade, traffic has shifted to the Caribbean. The National Drug Intelligence Center reports that cocaine seizures along sea routes between Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands more than tripled between 2009 and 2010. Plenty of the stuff is still getting through: The price of cocaine in the area dropped by roughly one-third between 2008 and 2010, suggesting there is no lack of supply. Upward of 80 percent of what arrives by plane or boat goes on to the eastern United States …
Study finds pregnancy nausea drug won't harm fetus
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No drugs are currently approved for morning sickness in the United States although doctors are free to prescribe whatever they believe is best. Zofran, sold by GlaxoSmithKline and in generic form for treating nausea from cancer treatments and other …
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Treating Duchenne, the most common of the rare diseases
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"It's pretty devastating," Eric Hoffman, the director of the Center for Genetic Medicine Research at Children's National Medical Center, said to CBSNews.com. "These boys … In addition to being one of the doctors who worked on the Genome Project and …
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