Heberprot-P, created by specialists from the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Centre (CIGB) and the National Institute of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, has benefited more than 16,000 diabetic patients in Cuba, Miriela Gil Mena, coordinator of the Programme for the National Extension of that medicine which reduces the chances of an amputation, said. There are around 285 million diabetic persons in the world.
Read MoreCuba will try to recover 500 hectares of mangroves on the north central coast, very damaged by salinization and soil mismanagement, said Mileydi León, specialist of Environmental Management of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) in Villa Clara province, some 260 kilometers east of the island’s capital.
Read MoreFor the artists of “Proyecto Huellas” (Project Imprints), the crossroads village of Cantarrana has a special allure. On the block where they decided to establish themselves, they were welcomed with the same naturalness that locals receive the sun in the morning or the pestilent scent of the river that runs nearby.
Read MoreDubbed “The Great Green Wall,” a human-made ecological barrier designed to stop rapidly encroaching deserts and combat climate change is coming up across China. By 2050, the artificial forest is to stretch 400 million hectares – covering more than 42 percent of China’s landmass.
Read MoreFor the last 50 years, Jamaica’s modern history has been shaped by two powerful parties – the Jamaica Labour Party and the People’s National Party. Although dozens of others have periodically emerged, the political graveyard has inevitably been their final resting place.
Read MoreTropical Storm Matthew was named on Thursday afternoon as it churns in the central Caribbean en route towards Central America. At 6:00 p.m. EST, Cuba weather experts spotted the center of the storm at 665 kilometers (450 miles) east of Cabo Gracias a Dios in northeastern Nicaragua.
Read MoreThe Cuba travel ban will be brought up Wednesday September 29, at the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, announced Chairman Howard L. Berman.
Read MoreA tropical depression, the fifteenth of the season, developed on Thursday morning south of Jamaica and north of Colombia in the central Caribbean, notes Cuba’s Meteorological Institute (INSMET).
Read MoreCuba and Nicaragua began a 5-game exhibition series in San Jose de las Lajas on the outskirts of the Cuban capital on Wednesday evening with the hosts defeating the visitors 5-1.
Read MoreUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recognized Cuba’s advances in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in a meeting with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, reported IPS. The Korean diplomat also thanked the island for its cooperation with Haiti, a country devastated by an earthquake on January 12, 2010.
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