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Cuba continuing
to develop innovative biotechnology products
November.18.09
DESPITE the global economic-financial crisis and the
cruel and unjust blockade imposed for more than 50
years by successive U.S. administrations, Cuba is
continuing to develop innovative biotechnology
products to improve the quality of life of its
population and other nations.
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More than 40,000 patients from 85 countries seen at
CIREN
February 26.09
THE
International Neurological Restoration Center
(CIREN), founded on February 26, 1989, has attended
more than 40,000 patients from 85 countries,
including Cuba. In an exclusive interview with
AIN...
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Cuban
scientists develop genetically modified corn
December 11.08
Doctor
Carlos Borroto, deputy director of Havana's Genetic
Engineering and Biotechnology Center, defends
positive uses of this technology and assures that
the goal of working on this type of cultivation is
to assure the population’s food security
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New vaccine plant at
the Finlay Institute
‘We want to
serve more’
December 4.08
A letter
addressed to the Finlay Institute from the World
Health Organization in July 2006, asking for help in
producing millions of doses of the anti-meningitis
vaccine, was the motive for the inauguration at that
renowned center of Cuban biotechnology, of a plant
with a production capacity of up to 100 million
doses annually of active components for that purpose.
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Cuba continues to
prioritize prevention in the campaign against HIV
December 4.08
CUBA
commemorated World Aids Day on December 1 with a
variety of activities aimed at continuing to
strengthen the preventative work being developed,
which has made it possible for Cuba to maintain the
lowest prevalence rate in the Caribbean.
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Cuba
registers therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer
June 25. 2008
THE first therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of
advanced lung cancer has been registered in Cuba,
the only one for this type of malignancy world-wide,
reported the national news agency, AIN.
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Cuba
exports medical equipment all over the world
January 18. 2008
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.
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Number of diabetics in Cuba could double by 2010
November 30. 2007
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 people a year
worldwide.
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Aboriginal site discovered
on Guanabo beach
October 5. 2007
CUBAN archeologists have discovered a remarkable
aboriginal site at Punta Macao, on Guanabo beach in
eastern Havana, which contains ceramics and pottery
objects, according to a report given at the 2nd
International Archeology Seminar that recently took
place in the island’s capital, attended by delegates
from 200 countries.
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New advances
in orthopedics
September 14. 2007
CUBAN scientist Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras is to
present the Orthopedics and Traumatology development
program in our country at the upcoming Congress on
the specialty, scheduled for September 17 through 22
at the Viñales Cultural Center in Pinar del Río
province.
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Development
agreement with the UN
September 14. 2007
BACKED by a funding of $100 million, Cuba and the UN
Development Program (UNDP) have signed in Havana a
framework agreement for aid in five areas of
cooperation.
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New
discovery in Cuban indigenous burial site
September 14. 2007
AN
untouched area where an original Cuban indigenous
population prepared their meals has been discovered
by a group of researchers in the eastern province of
Holguín on a site occupied by the Chorro de Maíta
Archeological Museum.
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Cuba works
to eliminate substances depleting the ozone layer
September 14. 2007
AS
part of the policy implemented by Cuba to eliminate
the import and use of substances that deplete the
ozone layer, from 1989 to 2006, the country consumed
8,626 less tons of chlorofluorocarbons, chemical
substances used in refrigeration and air
conditioners, and industrial and pharmaceutical
aerosols, according to Doctor Nelson Espinosa,
director of the Technical Office on Ozone, who spoke
with Granma International.
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Biofuels
threaten water reserves, experts warn
August
10. 2007
STOCKHOLM, August 12. — A group of
experts at the opening of the World Water Week
conference in this capital warned that water
reserves are seriously threatened by the massive
production of ethanol and other biofuels for
automobiles.
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China
to produce Cuban Aedes aegypti bio-insecticide
August
10. 2007
CHINA will finance the production, in that
country, of six million units of a Cuban bio-insecticide
to be used in Cuba to control outbreaks of dengue
fever spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito,
according to a report by Juventud Rebelde.
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The Cuban
people: a pioneer in integrating development and
environmental sustainability
July
16. 2007
BORN in Brazil to German parents 46 years ago,
Achim Steiner has held the post of executive
director of the United Nations Environmental
Programme (UNEP) since June 15, 2006, and is the
youngest UN general undersecretary.
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Biological corridor in the Caribbean,
an example of South-South cooperation
July
13. 2007
SANTO DOMINGO, July 12.— The governments of Cuba,
the Dominican Republic and Haiti signed the Santo
Domingo Declaration here, with the goal of creating
a biological corridor in the Caribbean to preserve
its ecosystems and the environment.
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Environmental
convention begins today in Cuba
July 2. 2007
CLIMATE change, the environmental
challenge of the 21st century, is to be the focus of
debates at the 6th International Convention on the
Environment and Development, which begins today,
July 2, in Havana, PL reported.
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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
Cuba
celebrates with almost 25% of territory forest
covered
June 5. 2007
CUBA has reached June 5 – World
Environment Day – with some 24.95% of its land
surface covered in forests, according to information
noted at the end of December 2006, representing an
increase of 0.4% in relation to the previous year.
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