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Cuban Deaf-blind Children Regain Hearing

Nearly 20 Cuban deaf and blind children can hear now, thanks to the implant of an electronic device that has revolutionized the world of profound// neuro-sensorial auditory deficiency. ....The patients received the implant at La Pradera International Health Centre in Havana, the Prensa Latina news service reported. ....The device turns sounds and speaking signs into electric signals, partially r...

Researchers Disprove that Cuban Sugarcane lowers Cholesterol

A research institute in Cuba had earlier proved that Policosanols present in Cuban sugar cane had..dramatic cholesterol-lowering effects. A new study done by// Canadian researchers contradicts this view. ....Two Canadian researchers Dr. Peter J. H. Jones and Dr. Amira N. Kassis studying Nutrition and Functional Foods at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, conducted their study on 21 healthy m...

Spanish Doctor to Examine Cuban Leader Castro

A renowned Spanish physician is to examine ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Barcelona's daily El Periodico de Catalunya reported on Sunday.// ....Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido has already flown to Cuba at the request of the country's government. The doctor from Madrid's Gregorio-Maranon Hospital is considered one of the leading experts in the field of general surgery. ....According to the report, Ga...

The American Dream Comes True for 105-year-old Cuban

Jose "El Nino" Temprana, a 105-year-old exile who was detained for 30 years in his native Cuba, realized his American dream Friday, when he became a US citizen at a ceremony in Miami. ......Now, he says, his next goal is to find himself a wife. ......And the former fisherman is convinced he will outlive the ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro he once plotted to assassinate. ......"He's far le...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

Hospitals in Cuba are often shabby and badly-lit, and lack equipment and medicines. But the health system built by President Fidel Castro's government has produced results on a par with rich nations using the resources of a developing country. ...Experts say that is because Cuba focused on prevention and because its universal free health care allows Cubans to see a doctor quickly and treat illne...

China to Make Cuban Dengue Mosquito Killer

China will mass-produce a Cuban pesticide effective against dengue-carrying mosquitos, Cuba's foreign ministry said Sunday . ......Cuban scientists developed and patented Bactivec, a biolarvicide which kills larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the dengue vector, the ministry statement said. ......According to the agreement, China will defray the cost of building the factory in China, and Cuba...