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Havana, May 19th, (PL). Several lectures on vascular diseases associated to diabetes attract the attention of experts attending the11th Angiology Congress, which will extend until next Friday.
Every May 18th the World celebrates the Museums International Day. This date was declared the museums’ day by UNESCO (United Nations Education, Sciences and Culture Organization) on 1977. This date is also celebrated in Cienfuegos by people engaged in preserving national and universal heritage as well as for people enjoying it.
Havana, May 18th, (PL). The 11th Congress of Angiology and Cardiovascular Surgery will start today in this city. The congress will be attended by specialists from six Latin American countries, Europe and the United States, who will focus on more than 20 topics such as chronic venous insufficiency.
Walking around cultural presences is one of the novelties designed by Rutas y Andares project. This project sponsored by the Office of Havana City Historian and focused on families was granted the Third Ibero – American Award for Education and Museums.
Cuban scientific community keeps an eye on the oil spill at the Gulf of Mexico caused by the sinking of British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon platform last April.
A team of scientists has identified two genes which are involved in the Alzheimer disease. The information was released by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in its most recent edition.
The hydrocarbon slick extending offshore Louisiana is threatening the sea and land habitats not only of that state, but also from Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
Havana, Cuba. – Very soon the Cubans suffering from allergies to dust mites will be immunized via a sublingual therapeutic vaccine. Known under the commercial name of VALERGEN, this vaccine is being produced by the National Center of Biopreparations.
Havana, Cuba.– The recent sighting of a manatee in the Bay of Havana confirms the constant environmental recovery of the capital’s inlet.
Havana, Cuba. – The National Information Center of Medical Sciences (CNICM)–Infomed, celebrated 45 years of existence with the tribute to thirty workers and a concert of the pianist José María Vitier.
Havana, (AIN) The Cuban scientist Humberto Ríos won the Goldman Prize of Environment, one of the most important international prizes on ecology.
Havana, April 21st (PL) A workshop on the free software and computer and communications technologies will be held today as a part of the International Congress Info 2010, which will end next Friday.
Pinar del Río. – Analysis of studies on the flora and a workshop about the management of fire will be the main topic of the VI International Symposium of Forest Resources, which will be held from the 21st to the 24th in this city.
Havana, April 21st (PL) The second stage of the 49th national vaccination campaign against poliomyelitis will begin in Cuba the day after tomorrow, and, in the two cycles, it will make possible the immunization of half a million children; it was reported by Granma newspaper.
Santiago de Cuba. – The first International Congress of Graduates of the Latin American School of Medicine will be held from April 20th to April 25th in this province, with the participation of phycicians from 20 countries.
Havana, April15th (PL) Cuban experts highlighted the importance of diagnosing and treating obesity on time, an illness that constitutes an important and global health problem.
Havana, February 24: Next February 26 is the 48th anniversary of the first national poliomyelitis–vaccination campaign led by the Ministry of Public Health and the Cuban mass organizations.
Havana, February 25 (PL). Cuban medical cooperation has reached 77 countries and included some 38 thousand professionals, according to authorities in this sector, which is considered to be one of the main achievements of the Cuban Revolution.
A new biological product having a nematicidal effect was made at the Research Plant Health Institute (INISAV), said to JR Doctor María Elena Márquez Gutiérrez, head of the Technology Group for Biopesticide and Beneficial–Arthropod Production.
Havana, Cuba. The 40th anniversary of one of the great achievements of the Cuban nephrology will be commemorated tomorrow by specialists in this field of medicine: the first successful kidney transplant made by a multidisciplinary team of physicians of the Cuban Institute of Nephrology (INEF) under Dr Abelardo Buch, director–founder of this institution.
Havana, Cuba. The commemoration next February 23 of the 10th Anniversary of the creation of the University Chairs for the Elderly pay tribute to the Cuban Revolution and its historical generation.
Havana, February 23 (PL) Next March 5, Cuba will initiate its 49th national poliomyelitis vaccination campaign and over half a million children will be immunized in the two stages, as reported today in Granma newspaper.
Havana. The Cuban Science Cluster and Cuban pharmaceutical industries and the Algerian consortium Saidal made a strategic alliance today in Algiers so as to manufacture generic and advanced biotechnological pharmaceuticals.
Havana, Cuba. Cuban female specialists are the main authors of and have collaborated in 40 out of the 67 Awarded results of scientific research throughout 2009, this acknowledgement has been conferred by the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) since 1992.
Havana, February 12th (PL) The book Science, Innovation and Future, written by the Cuban scientist Fidel Castro Díaz–Balart will be presented today during the first academic session of the 19th Book International Fair Cuba 2010.
Havana, February 11th (PL) The Cuban Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, José Miyar Barrueco highlighted today the work of the Latin–American School of Medicine (ELAM, Spanish acronym) as an example of true integration among peoples.
Cienfuegos, February 11th (AIN) A fossilized crab belonging to the Lophoranina precocious species, found at Cienfuegos province, has been reported as the third individual of this species in the world and its age has been estimated between 65 and 80 millions years.
Port au Prince, February 11th (PL) A group of physicians trained at the Cuban Latin–American School of Medicine (ELAM) arrived in this capital city as part of "Henry Reeve" brigade to reinforce the medical mission in the island.
Havana, February 10th (PL) Present development of the climatic phenomenon known as El Niño has been qualified as moderate, said an expert of the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment.
Havana, February 9th Specialists from the National Center for Scientific Researches are developing a new product extracted from the royal palm for the treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia, said Doctor Carlos Gutiérrez, Director of this institution.
The reception of candidates for the Peace Nobel Prize closed with a surprise: the Internet nomination. This initiative has been promoted by the Italian version of Wired and its editor.
Havana, February 4th (AIN) The Cuban National Commission of UNESCO and the National Committee for World Memory have included in one of their programs all the materials coming from the expedition "Canoeing from the Amazonas into the Caribbean".
Bayamo, February 2nd, 2010. A Cuban woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodríguez is celebrating this Tuesday her 125th birthday; an age that makes her probably the oldest person in the world, although this fact has not been acknowledged by the corresponding bodies.
Santiago de Cuba, February 2nd. At the Ophthalmological Center of Santiago de Cuba city, located in the eastern part of the island, acupuncture is being used as anesthetic in eyes surgery, preventing this way the bothers caused on patients by the intramuscular or venous application of drugs.
Havana, (AIN) Although the verification was done by using lab mice, Spanish scientists discovered a brain mechanism that keep these rodents thin despite swallowing diets rich in fats.
London, February 2nd (PL). According a study released by Nature review, British and American experts succeeded in determining the structure of integrase, a protein playing an important role in the HIV infection.
La Paz, February 2nd, (PL) Experts from Bolivia, Argentine, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador and Uruguay will attend in this city the first International Congress on pesticides. According to the committee...
Ciego de Ávila. Scientific studies carried out in Jardines de la Reina, the most virgin of the four Cuban archipelagoes, revealed changes in the coloration of local petrous coral reefs.
Havana, February 1st (PL) Cuba counts at present with a scientific infrastructure of more than 210 research, technology and innovation centers in order to develop new products, substitute imports and create new export funds.
Havana, Cuba. Real time control of electric consumption behavior can be guaranteed through the implementation of the software "Automatic Acquisition of Electric Parameters, Supervision and Billing" (ASPELFAC, Spanish acronym).