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Celorio, who just turned 100 years old is a man beating time

Jose Manuel Celorio Celorio, who turned 100 years old last Sunday (Fathers Day), and he celebrated his birthday surrounded by his four children, six grand-children and the same amount of great grand-children, beisdes, with the satisfaction of knowing that time has not killed his clarity yet. Read More

Launched website about international cuban medical cooperation

Aiming at making the world learn about, be informed and up to date about Cuba's international medical cooperation activities, a new World Wide Web site named Cuba-Coopera was inaugurated recently in the Cuban capital. Read More

International Event on Mental Disorders hosted in Cuba

The 7th International Symposium on the Biological Aspects and Drug Therapy of Mental Disorders got under way in Havana on Thursday. Today's sessions dealt mostly with physiopathology and depression therapy in children. Read More

Cuban lawmaker highlights contribution by doctors to Bolivia

Cuban lawmaker Jorge Gonzalez praised the work of over 1,000 doctors from his country in Bolivia by noting that nearly five million Bolivians have already been assisted in outpatient consultations. Gonzalez, who is also a physician, heads the Medical and Sports Commission of the Cuban Parliament. Read More

Cuba to host 6th Perfusion Congress

The Latin American Perfusion Council convened for June 27-30 at Hotel Nacional de Cuba the 6th Congress of Extracorporeal Technology. Doctor Antolin Romero Suarez, president of the organizing committee, said the meeting will gather over 120 foreign delegates and near 100 experts from Cuban cardiovascular centers. Read More

Research for alternative treatments in Holguin, Cuba

Early outcomes of the assessment of the clinical tests with new medications on people suffering from spino-cerebellar Ataxia type 2 (SCA2, in Spanish) prove the research effective, having much improved zinc levels in the serum of the patients studied. Read More

Film shows humaneness of our health system: Cuba

Cuba's government joined the debate surrounding Michael Moore's new documentary SiCKO on Friday, saying the film will allow the world to get a glimpse of the humaneness of its health system. Read More

Surgery revolution taking Place in the 21st Century

Virtual reality, robotics, and operations via natural orifices are some of the concepts promoted by the new surgery revolution, said French doctor Jacques Marescaux during a conference in Havana Read More

New Latin American Medical School in Cuba

The inauguration of a new Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba favors about five hundred Bolivian students from the regions of Santa Cruz and Potosi. The students will soon begin classes for their formation as doctors, and will be a great support to their country since the department of Santa Cruz is the largest in the country. Read More

Nutritional program benefits people in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba

Abott 5 000 inhabitants from the Cuban centsal provhnce of Rancti Spiritus receive the benefits of a subsidized nutritional program started in the xear 2000 when a!survey -which bdcame syrtematic ever since- was carried out throughout the country. Read More

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