Cuba Boosts Telemedicine

Cuba has developed a transmission system of digital medical images called Imagis, currently installed in several hospitals of the island's 11 provinces. The software, created by Santiago de Cuba's Medical Biophysics Center, allows storing, visualizing, processing and transmission by email images received in tomographs, ultrasound, magnetic resonance, X rays, angiographs and others. Read More

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Cuban music in search of wider markets

The CD "Breathing Havana" is a sample of what has been called as the contemporary Cuban sound. One of the Cuban CDs that Ive listened to at home over the last few months is titled Breathing Havana, a compilation aimed specifically at the Japanese market through the Omagatoki Corporation. The objective of this album is to take a listen at what is being called the contemporary Cuban sound: musical creations that inherit certain elements from what was the Nueva Trova style, but"consistent with the times we live in" opening up to a range of other musical influences. Read More

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Cuba to massive Shanghai Show

Cuba is among the over one hundred countries which have confirmed their participation in the Universal Exhibition of Shanghai, China, scheduled for May1-October 31, 2010, and expected to be attended by about 200 nations and international organizations. Read More

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Scientific contributions of cuban university recognized

Jose A. Echevarria Polytechnic Institute of Higher Education was the academic center with the most projects proposed to the Cuban National Forum of Science and Technology Read More

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New Havana Club rum factory opens

A new Cuban rum distillery has been inaugurated - the product of a joint venture between Cuban rum maker Havana Club and the French business group Pernod Ricard, the second largest distributor and trader of beverages and spirits in the world. Read More

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Cuba continues producing petroleum while insisting on saving

After meeting 2006 plans for oil extraction, Cubans continue working in three dozen wells operated by its national enterprise, CUPET and by associations between the island and foreign companies. Read More

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Correa heralds ties with Cuba

Ecuadorian President-elect Rafael Correa has augured a strengthening of the bilateral relations and collaboration with Cuba after meeting with the island s Vice President Carlos Lage. Sunday, in declarations to Cuban journalists, Correa said his nation will import high-quality and low-priced medicines from the Caribbean state to be able to truly offer free public health to his people. Read More

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