Personal responsibility with health in Cuba: structural analysis and identification of strategic variables by Isabel Pilar Luis Gonzalvez, Adolfo Álvarez Pérez, Yusdanys Torres Jiménez

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> the increase in personal responsibility for health in the Cuban population is an expected result of the Socialist Development Plan until the year 2030. …”
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Chevolución, Chesucristo: historia de un ícono en dos clichés by Verushka Alvizuri

“…The promotion and/or censure of these images shows several uses of Che memory, as symbol of Cuban revolution, of Liberation Church and souvenir of political tourism in Bolivia.…”
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La position des pays de l’ALBA et de l’UNASUR face à la guerre en Libye by Hortense Faivre d'Arcier-Flores

“…To better understand the Bolivarian countries’ condemnation of the NATO military intervention in Libya and their support of the legitimacy of the Guide of the Revolution Muammar Gaddafi, we had to examine the Latin American context, since the emergence of the Cuban Revolution to the establishment of a new regional geopolitical balance. …”
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TRANSFER OF ARGOS-LIKE AND ATEXPA10 GENES INTO NONTRANSGENIC FORMS OF TOBACCO AND PHENOTYPIC EFFECTS OF THEIR CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSION by B. R. Kuluev, E. V. Mikhaylova, A. V. Chemeris

“…Hybrid plants were obtained by pollination of Nicotiana rustica and Nicotiana tabacum Black Cuban cultivar with pollen of transgenic Nicotiana tabacum plants of Petit Havana SR1 cultivar bearing the ARGOS-LIKE and AtEXPA10 genes. …”
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CardioVilla 2011: congratulations to the health of cardiovascular medicine in Cuba by Raúl Dueñas Fernández, Alberto Morales Salinas, Rubén Tomás Moro Rodríguez, Jesús A. Satorre Ygualada

“…In addition, the new Board of Directors of the Cuban Society of Cardiology was elected. <p> </p>…”
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Bioethical aspects of the management of patients with Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome by Maria de Jesús Sánchez Bouza, Pedro Sánchez Frenes.

“…Bioethical aspects related with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of patients with AIDS are present in the Cuban strategy to fight the epidemic. Through the revision of the essentials and principles of Bioethics, we analyze the problems that doctors face when treating these patients and aspects related with education for health in the case of this disease. …”
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ACOPIO: Cuba's State Procurement and Distribution Agency by José Alvarez

“…This fact sheet summarizes the role of this state agency since the early days of the Cuban revolution along with its inefficiencies and reorganizations. …”
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The clinical method as a learning content in the medicine career. by Luis Alberto Corona Martínez

“…It also offers information about the theoretical support given by outstanding Cuban professors on this topic which allowed the identification of a group of regularities that made the clinical method be a learning content with the category of invariant of knowledge , so it is indispensable to continue its teaching and to stimulate its use in practice.…”
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ACOPIO: Cuba's State Procurement and Distribution Agency by José Alvarez

“…This fact sheet summarizes the role of this state agency since the early days of the Cuban revolution along with its inefficiencies and reorganizations. …”
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Royal Palm Bug, Xylastodoris luteolus Barber (Insecta: Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) by Thomas J. Weissling, Forrest W. Howard, Alan W. Meerow

“… The royal palm bug, Xylastodoris luteolus Barber, is one of the few arthropods that feed on Cuban royal palms, Roystonea regia, which are native to Florida and Cuba. …”
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Royal Palm Bug, Xylastodoris luteolus Barber (Insecta: Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae) by Thomas J. Weissling, Forrest W. Howard, Alan W. Meerow

“… The royal palm bug, Xylastodoris luteolus Barber, is one of the few arthropods that feed on Cuban royal palms, Roystonea regia, which are native to Florida and Cuba. …”
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Bronchial asthma in elderlies: an approach to this issue in Cuba by Marisela Pérez Pacaréu, Alina de la Caridad González Paredes, Julio Romero Cabrera, Nivia Ramirez López, Idalis Álvarez Toledo, Vivian Macías Carrera

“…Bronchial asthma is considered a health problem given its high prevalence: about 10% of the Cuban population suffers from it. In elderlies it is an underdiagnosed and undertreated disease often confused with chronic lung disease, so it is very important to able to evaluate the specific characteristics it presents in elderlies in order to attack the disease effectively, and promote the life quality of asthmatic elderlies.…”
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Dose Effect Evaluation and Therapeutic Window of the Neuro-EPO Nasal Application for the Treatment of the Focal Ischemia Model in the Mongolian Gerbil by Iliana Sosa Teste, Yuneidys Mengana Tamos, Yamila Rodríguez Cruz, Adriana Muñoz Cernada, Janette Cruz Rodríguez, Nelvis Subirós Martínez, Rosa Maria Coro Antich, Alina González-Quevedo, Julio Cesar García Rodríguez

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Cuba's Agricultural Markets by José Alvarez

“… The reports included in this series intend to address the increasing level of interest in the Cuban market for food and agricultural products among U.S. firms and to assist them in becoming more familiar with that market. …”
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Cuba's Agricultural Markets by José Alvarez

“… The reports included in this series intend to address the increasing level of interest in the Cuban market for food and agricultural products among U.S. firms and to assist them in becoming more familiar with that market. …”
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L’indépendance cubaine au miroir du cinéma : enjeux idéologiques, esthétiques et historiographiques by Julie Amiot

“…This article broaches the subject of national independence in Cuban films, in order to reveal that films produced within the framework of the commemorations of this event in 1968 stand out through their quantity as well as through their quality. …”
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Los intereses sectoriales de la vivienda social en Cuba by Adriana Rabinovich

“…In the first few years following the Cuban revolution, the State assumed full responsibility for public housing. …”
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Approach to measurements at the nano level, with an emphasis on biomedicine by Ernesto José López González, Yolanda Cabrera Macías, Tatiana de las Mercedes Escoriza Martínez, Marle Pérez de Armas, Ernesto López Cabrera

“…Scielo was used as a database, with the keywords: nanotechnology, nanomedicine, Cuban health units. The article makes an approach to nanotechnology with an international and regional approach. …”
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Doctor-patient interaction and informed consent in pediatric surgery: theory and reality in the regional practice by Sergio Luis González López, Carlos Alberto Cabrera Machado, Guillermo Cortiza Orbe, Zoe Quintero Delgado, Bertha Emelina Fonseca Romero, Yordan Ponce Rodríguez

“…It is widely accepted that the recognition of patient´s autonomy and the informed consent process have led to a change in the doctor-patients interaction, which is closely linked to the pediatric surgical practice in the particular Cuban modern environment. In addition to the study of bioethical principles and their enforcement by those who are to provide medical services, it is also necessary to look for useful answers to bioethical questions affecting the legal tools that support the procedure.…”
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The Potential Correlation between Natural Disasters and Cuba's Agricultural Performance by José Alvarez

“… The reports included in this series intend to address the increasing level of interest in the Cuban market for food and agricultural products among U.S. firms and to assist them in becoming more familiar with that market. …”
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