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642 pre-medical students to constitute last batch for Cuba: HEC

<div align="left">A total of 642 pre-medical students will constitute the last batch under 1000 Scholarships in General Medicine Studies in Cuba. The programme has been jointly sponsored by the Republic of Cuba and the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan.<br /><br />The Cuban government had announced the scholarship for 1000 Pakistani students at the time when Cuba&#39;s medical and relief team arrived in Pakistan in 2005 to help earthquake affectees in NWFP and AJK.<br /> Read More

Daniel Ortega thanked Cuba for medical assistance

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega publicly thanked Cuba for medical assistance being supplied by the island through medical teams working in his country as part of an initiative of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), an effort in support of Latin American integration. Read More

Over 240 health workers back in Sancti Spiritus

Over 240 health workers from the Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus have already returned home during the last six months after having successfully fulfilled their missions in different Third World countries. Read More

The retired ones in style

Cuba, with nearly 15% of its older adult population (about 1 600 000)develops assistance models destined to guarantee an acceptable life quality to those who in many ways were useful to society for a long time. Read More

St. Vicent PM undergoes foot surgery in Cuba

<p align="left">St Vincent and the Grenadines&#39; Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves is now resting comfortably in a Cuban hospital after undergoing foot surgery. Read More

Cuban Vaccines in Production in Vietnam

New Cuban vaccines in production were presented to some 200 doctors and preventive medicine experts at a conference in Cat Ba, an island in the northeast of Viet Nam. Read More

Cuba to carry out first double lung transplant

<p align="left">Cuba is to carry out the first double lung transplant in the last quarter of this year, announced Dr. Manuel Sarduy Paneque, Head of Bronchoscopy Department at the Pneumonology Institute. Read More

Cuban scientist discovers new healing properties of Vimang

<p align="left"><font size="1">Cuban Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate, Gilberto Pardo Andreu has discovered that Vimang, a drug obtained from the bark of mango trees, protects the body cells from the damage caused by iron accumulation in them.</font> Read More

Debates on lung surgery at Neumosol 2007 Congress, Cuba

<p align="left"><font size="2">Cuban achievements in lung transplanting will be debated by delegates at Neumosol 2007, a scientific event starting Wednesday in the eastern most Cuban province of Guantanamo.</font> Read More

Polio vaccination campaign underway in Cuba

Nearly half a million Cuban children will be immunized during the 46 Polio Campaign that has kicked off in Cuba and which coincides with the Vaccination Week of the Americas. Read More

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