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A program for early detection of congenital adrenal hyperplasia is currently developed by specialists and paramedic personnel of the North Children's Hospital Endocrinology Department in Santiago de Cuba.

What causes this hereditary autosomic recessive disease is a cortisol deficit from cholesterol in the adrenal glands, and ambiguity in defining the sex of newborn babies is one of its consequences.

Roberto Fernandez Retamar, President of the Havana-based Casa de las Americas cultural center and a winner of the National Literature Award, has been chosen as the new director of the Cuban Academy of Language.

Yadira Garcia Vera, Minister of the Cuban Basic Industry (MINBAS), toured the eastern region of Moa in Holguin, to check production in the nickel processing plants based here as well as the ongoing investment program.

Cuba's First Deputy Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met Tuesday in Havana with Algeria's Foreign Affairs General Secretary Madjid Bouguerra to discuss bilateral relations.

In interview for Cubasi, the David of Strawberry and Chocolate assured that “it has been a strange and important opportunity to make this religious play and above all that in Spain, with a Spanish group and with one of the directors who best teaches and reads the verse.

The territorial priorities until year 2010 and the strategic projects along a decade of solidarity and brotherhood were evaluated by Pinar and Andalusia representatives, during a two-day session encounter at Hermanos Saíz University in the westernmost region of the island.

Weeks past the successful release in Cannes Film Festival of the feature-length starred by Benicio del Toro, winner of the Best Male Performance Award, Paris honors him in different ways.

Cuba guarantees its population universal treatment and access to the necessary medications and technology to face diseases like HIV-Aids, TB and Malaria, said Cuban deputy health minister Luis Estruch Rancaño at the UN Conference on the topic on Wednesay.

Prestigious Cuban dance figures, trainers of new generations of dancers, are participating in the 2nd National Meeting of Dance Teachers, which begain June 9th, in the eastern city of Guantánamo and runs through June 15th.

The prestigious Havana-based Café Concert El Gato Tuerto welcome more than 50 bolero singers from around the country, June 10th through the 12th, in the framework of the 6th National Singing Contest ‘Boleros de Oro 2008’.

Chinese intellectuals Zhang Chengzhi and Liu Chengjun held talks with their counterparts from Cuba’s eastern province of Holguín, where they stayed at the invitation of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).

Cuba’s rice consumption has reached about 600,000 tons per year, while its annual output is 100,000 tons, according to the national Statistics Office.

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, sent diplomas to members of the ‘Henry Reeve’ Cuban Medical Contingent in recognition of their recent contribution in Chengdu, in the Chinese province of Sichuan, after this region was devastated by an earthquake last month.

Oncoplastic surgery has been performed in Pinar del Río province on patients with breast cancer, an innovative method that avoids the psychological effects after the tumor is removed by traditional means.

A poem by the Argentinean Julio Cortázar to Commander Che Guevara writen shortly after his death fighting in Bolivia has been published in the web page dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of the legendary revolutionary.