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All rights reserved.http://www.plenglish.comHealth and Science NewsENinter@prensa-latina.cuWed, 20 Aug 2008 18:47:02 GMT1http://www.plenglish.comhttp://www.plenglish.com/images/rsslogo.gifarticle.asp?ID={F2D1E234-FD91-4792-ACF3-5592B686B856}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={F2D1E234-FD91-4792-ACF3-5592B686B856}&language=EN8/19/2008 3:54:34 PMLome, Aug 19 (Prensa Latina) Togo, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Benin are in need for urgent aid to prevent epidemic outbreak and food shortage caused by recent floods.article.asp?ID={F4040BCA-5F18-4D55-9D47-22EB3C6F3530}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={F4040BCA-5F18-4D55-9D47-22EB3C6F3530}&language=EN8/19/2008 12:54:44 PMCaracas, Aug 19 (Prensa Latina) The Red Andina de Vigilancia Epidemiologica is discussing initiatives to design a strategy for fighting common health problems in South America.article.asp?ID={CADAEBB1-3F69-42FA-9414-C3F51D1A4277}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={CADAEBB1-3F69-42FA-9414-C3F51D1A4277}&language=EN8/19/2008 12:01:47 PMCaracas, Aug 19 (Prensa Latina) The Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) noted the inclusive system and high technology of the Venezuelan Health Program Barrio Adentro that aids today 17 million people.article.asp?ID={ED572909-D085-4C8A-916E-DA4FDCC469D0}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={ED572909-D085-4C8A-916E-DA4FDCC469D0}&language=EN8/17/2008 5:46:06 PMHavana, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) Tropical storm Fay is lashing southeastern Cuba with heavy rains, threatening to make its way across the island's center before heading towards Florida.article.asp?ID={189F2BCC-6084-48F3-9532-6F4862E6F602}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={189F2BCC-6084-48F3-9532-6F4862E6F602}&language=EN8/16/2008 12:48:37 PMHavana, Aug 16 (Prensa Latina) Cuban PhD. Thalia Fung has been re-elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP).article.asp?ID={347F6200-FC80-4257-9E23-EBE2FA8995D8}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={347F6200-FC80-4257-9E23-EBE2FA8995D8}&language=EN8/15/2008 12:04:48 PMBenguela, Angola, Aug 15 (Prensa Latina) Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos inaugurated an eye clinic in Benguela, among other social facilities, as part of Operation Miracle Program.article.asp?ID={A4D5C1F3-ACD0-436E-8D56-F32F99227F3C}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={A4D5C1F3-ACD0-436E-8D56-F32F99227F3C}&language=EN8/14/2008 4:58:21 PMTegucigalpa, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) After living for two centuries in Honduran territory, the garifuna communities have today a hospital through the effort of doctors graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) and the Cuban government.article.asp?ID={59D70DF7-D84B-47F3-840E-1B40BA116533}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={59D70DF7-D84B-47F3-840E-1B40BA116533}&language=EN8/14/2008 4:15:05 PMWashington, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) An increasing number of US teens gets, illegally, medicines that should be obtained under prescription, something considered in the threshold of consuming drugs like heroine, said a research revealed on Thursday. article.asp?ID={E3295088-0B80-428F-9C23-C2153B816071}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={E3295088-0B80-428F-9C23-C2153B816071}&language=EN8/14/2008 4:12:11 PMLuanda, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer began a four-day official visit to Angola in which he will attend the inauguration of an eye clinic in Benguela.article.asp?ID={CC453995-7C38-4ADF-AF18-CF9973282F22}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={CC453995-7C38-4ADF-AF18-CF9973282F22}&language=EN8/14/2008 10:53:16 AMCaracas, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela distributed free antiretroviral drugs to 23,000 HIV patients, as part of programs to improve their quality of life.article.asp?ID={DCA2FB77-AECC-4A9C-B444-0F40F4BE7071}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={DCA2FB77-AECC-4A9C-B444-0F40F4BE7071}&language=EN8/13/2008 5:32:52 PMWashington, Aug 13 (Prensa Latina) Further breakthrough defines discovery of the protein that helps control and boost blood stem cell growth.article.asp?ID={1BD888F8-44A5-44DC-8DF7-B1A36E284870}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={1BD888F8-44A5-44DC-8DF7-B1A36E284870}&language=EN8/12/2008 8:41:26 AMMexico, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) The Health Secretary of Mexico, Jose Angel Cordova, admitted that organ transplant operations in public health centers in the western state of Jalisco are corrupt.article.asp?ID={15D5F547-4D7F-4211-A246-3BE610AD31C8}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={15D5F547-4D7F-4211-A246-3BE610AD31C8}&language=EN8/12/2008 8:26:54 AMTokyo, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) Japan will soon have a state-of-the-art mechanism that will reinforce its early tsunami alert system, according to the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).article.asp?ID={EE1410A3-FA3E-46BF-97D2-74D81E782C1C}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={EE1410A3-FA3E-46BF-97D2-74D81E782C1C}&language=EN8/11/2008 5:46:33 PMMatanzas, Cuba, Aug 11 (Prensa Latina) Members of the Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Brigade with Cuba recognized the Cuban progress in the field of public health, during a visit to the Faustino Perez Hospital Monday.article.asp?ID={53DEC5D3-4ED7-421B-B5C9-3249ED77E503}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={53DEC5D3-4ED7-421B-B5C9-3249ED77E503}&language=EN8/10/2008 7:47:52 PMHavana, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuba graduated 6,639 professionals in the first Broad-Access Master's Course organized by the Ministry of Public Health to improve the professional level of physicians, a local official said.article.asp?ID={F7947124-15A8-4F4C-A0F8-7C5D563DB10E}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={F7947124-15A8-4F4C-A0F8-7C5D563DB10E}&language=EN8/10/2008 10:02:19 AMHanoi, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam commemorates today the Victims of Agent Orange Day, of millions of persons affected by the dioxine sprayed by the United States during the war on this country of Indochina.article.asp?ID={7AD8683B-F786-4ED5-BEFA-7C8846B643D9}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={7AD8683B-F786-4ED5-BEFA-7C8846B643D9}&language=EN8/10/2008 10:00:20 AMHanoi, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam commemorates today the Victims of Agent Orange Day, of millions of persons affected by the dioxine sprayed by the United States during the war on this country of Indochina.article.asp?ID={1B8F8393-DE2D-44BD-86B3-368327BD1F98}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={1B8F8393-DE2D-44BD-86B3-368327BD1F98}&language=EN8/10/2008 9:58:49 AMHanoi, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam commemorates today the Victims of Agent Orange Day, of millions of persons affected by the dioxine sprayed by the United States during the war on this country of Indochina.article.asp?ID={DC3BD048-B784-46AF-8AA2-8A047B641457}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={DC3BD048-B784-46AF-8AA2-8A047B641457}&language=EN8/9/2008 3:09:38 PMWashington, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) Increased global temperatures are causing heavier and more intense rains than forecast previously, warned scientists of the renowned scientific journal Science.article.asp?ID={8A6B3B82-C7E1-4198-B82F-0D60D4CD60F5}&language=ENarticle.asp?ID={8A6B3B82-C7E1-4198-B82F-0D60D4CD60F5}&language=EN8/9/2008 9:25:04 AMCaracas, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan medical experts are studying a disease that seems to be transmitted by bites from bats in far-reaching areas of the Delta Amacuro state, some 435 miles east of Caracas.