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JamaicaObserver.com
The health ministry is expected to finalize a new agreement with the Cuban Government next week that will see Jamaicans receiving critical optical treatment here under the Jamaica-Cuba Eye Care Project.
Aundre Franklyn, parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Health, told the Observer that the ministry accepted the offer from the Cuban Government in February to treat Jamaicans locally as opposed to the original agreement where Jamaicans are flown to Cuba for treatment, which lasted three weeks.
A September 2005 Observer file photo of former Prime Minister P J Patterson greeting 75-year-old David…
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(original title: Cuba exports medical equipment all over the world)
The national health system has at its disposal technology developed by an industry with 25 years of experience
BY LILLIAM RIERA | Granma International staff writer
MEDICAL equipment for cardiology and clinical neurophysiology services, some in the final phase of testing before production is begun, are among the products developed by a Cuban industry born 25 years ago.
This industry is composed basically of the Cuban Neuroscience Center (CNC) and the Central Institute for Digital Research (ICID), both part of the West…
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Periodico26.cu
Three years after the Operation Miracle program began, one million people from 28 Third World countries have benefited from free eye surgery, said Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage on Sunday in Santiago de Cuba.
Lage made the announcement after the signing 14 new Cuba-Venezuela integration agreements, at a ceremony attended by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Cuban First Vice President Raul Castro.
Cuba, with support from Venezuela, has promoted Operation Miracle since July 10, 2004, when the first 50 eye surgeries took place. The goal is to attend to and recover the vision…
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DTCuba.com
Cuba’s pharmaceutical industry is working to expand its presence on the international market by commercializing new medicines.
Among the new medicines that might be exported during the 2008-2010 period is the pentavalent vaccine Heberpenta, which immunizes against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and the bacteria Haemophilus influenzae type B.
Heberpenta is produced by the company Heber Biotec S.A., which is the exclusive representative of the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center and other Cuban scientific institutions.
The Cuban company will also export interferon gel to treat cervical-uterine cancer, and recombinant streptokinase…
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Granma.cu | BY LILLIAM RIERA
Number of diabetics in Cuba could double by 2010 • In the Habana municipality of Jaruco an active investigation within the population is underway, looking to the prevention and treatment of diabetes, an effort that is later to be extended to the rest of the country
CURRENTLY there are 375,095 registered cases of diabetes in Cuba, a figure that could reach 624,000 by 2010, affirmed Dr. Oscar Díaz, director of the National Institute of Endocrinology, a special center devoted to treatment of this condition that causes the death of three million…
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ACN
Cuban antioxidant supplement Vimang is being used in clinical trials on diseases such as asthma, HIV/AIDS, diabetes and dermatitis and the elderly, to improve their quality of life reduce their consumption of medications.
In statements to acn news agency, a specialist at the Center of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (CQF), Carmen Valenti, said Vimang, which is a natural substance obtained from the bark of mango trees, is also in the preclinical stage in fighting other ailments including Alzheimer and Ataxia.
Valenti, who is participating at the…
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Cuban scientists will conduct clinical trials of the anti-cancer properties of the venom from a scorpion native to the Caribbean island. They have administered it to more than 8,000 patients since 2000.
By Patricia Grogg | SperoNews
With doses of caution and hope, Cuban researchers are moving forward with studies to test the cancer-fighting properties of the toxin produced by the blue scorpion (Rhopalurus junceus), a species endemic to this island nation.
“We are concluding the studies of pre-clinical research in order to obtain registration and approval from Cuba’s regulatory entities to begin…
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Source: Alexis Rojas. | http://www.ahora.co.cu
Holguin, a Cuban province nearly 450 miles east of Havana, will soon become a significant power-generating area in the island, as the ongoing investment process is completed; resulting in 544.3 megawatt delivered to the national system by next year.
A meaningful step towards the goals of the Energetic Revolution, a nation-wide effort to save and efficiently produce electricity, was the assembling of several energy generators to account for 207.2 mw in 2006. during the current year new equipment has added other 50 mw to the system.
An absolute…
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ACN - ELAN celebrates 8th anniversary
Havana’s Latin American Medical School (ELAM) celebrated Thursday its 8th anniversary with a ceremony in the same square where the Cuban President officially inaugurated the institution with the attendance of heads of state and government that participated at the 1999 Ibero-American Summit.
Students, workers and graduates from the school wished Fidel Castro a long life and good health stressing the fact that he was the promoter of “this giant work of love,” said Elam’s Student Board president Nesio Fernandez de Medeiros…
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Prensa Latina
With the attendance of experts from over 20 nations, the International Congress “Biotecnologia Habana 2007” starts in this capital Monday, to analyze current bio-production trends.
Eduardo Martinez, director of Technological Development at the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center, said that the meeting will center for the first time in updating the conversion of scientific results in industrial productions.
Cuba must hold this kind of gathering for having reached “larger capacities and infrastructure for the production of biological products with first-world standards, Martinez noted.
The congress’ scientific sessions, to be run…
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