Queens Dentists Prepare for Cuba Humanitarian Dental Trip

<p style="text-align: justify;">Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:57. New York-- The Fialkoff Queens Dental Study Club, a monthly study club which provides continuing education credits to attending practitioners, is planning a Humanitarian Dental Trip to Havana, Cuba in February/March of 2012. Organized by Dr.Bernard Fialkoff, Founder of the study club, and Meghan Fialkoff, Director of the Cuba Humanitarian Dental Trip, the attending dental practitioners will provide pro-bono dental work and dental education to the Cuban lay and professional community. Read More

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Diana Nyad's Cuba-to-U.S. swim has lessons for us all

<p style="text-align: justify;">Although she didn't make it all the way to U.S. shores, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad said she gave it her all (Reuters) By Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times. August 10, 2011, 12:30 p.m.Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad was forced to bail on her historic Cuba-to-U.S. swim on Tuesday, but there's an important life lesson in that setback: Enjoy the journey. Nyad, 61, ended her 103-mile swim after about 30 hours due to problems both physical and environmental: an asthma attack, a painful shoulder and choppy waves made her abandon the effort, which would have been the first such swim without a shark cage. Read More

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