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Review: The International Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">New issue
now online! </span></b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cuba
Tackles Diabetes</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In
this issue: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">a look at Havana’s Immunoassay Center, a
mainstay of Cuba’s biotech sector and creator of a glucometer designed for
tropical climates; along with perspectives on diabetes prevention and
detection, including a discussion of the hygiene hypothesis of type 1 diabetes,
an algorithm to optimize use of costly nuclear cardiology to detect silent ischemia
in diabetes, and the importance of comprehensive care of diabetic mothers to
reduce birth defects. Plus, a review of
four decades of kidney transplantation in Cuba.
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<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin: 0in 0.2in 0.0001pt 0in;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">“In Cuba, an integrated, national strategy is one reason for low
diabetes mortality—the lowest in the Americas—with decreases reported in 2011
and 2012. Nevertheless, prevalence
continues to double every ten years, reaching some 510,000 patients registered
in 2012<i>.” </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="bodytext"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%">Featuring: </span></b><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=287&a=va"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%">Heberprot-P: A Novel Product for Treating Advanced Diabetic Foot Ulcer</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MEDICC Review</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"">is an <b><i>open-access peer-reviewed journal</i></b>. Full-text
articles </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">of
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> Vol 15, No 1 October, 2013</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
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Contents<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#006566">Editorial<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=282&a=va"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"">Diabetes: The Shark in the Water</span></b></a> </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#006566">Feature<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="bodytext"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=286&a=va"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%">Immunodiagnostics: The Convergence of Biotech and Public Health</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="Abstracts8pt" align="left"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%">Aramís Sánchez Gutiérrez MS and
Conner Gorry MA<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#006566">Special Article<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="bodytext"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=287&a=va"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%">Heberprot-P: A Novel Product for Treating Advanced Diabetic Foot Ulcer</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="Abstracts8pt" align="left"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%">Jorge Berlanga DVM MS PhD, et al.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#006566">Original Research</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="bodytext"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=288&a=va">Cross-Modal
Plasticity in Deaf Child Cochlear Implant Candidates Assessed <o:p></o:p></a></span></b></div>
<div class="bodytext"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=288&a=va">Using
Visual and Somatosensory Evoked Potentials</a></span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="subtitle"><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: windowtext;">Lidia E. Charroó-Ruíz MD MS, et al.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#006566">Review Article<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="bodytext"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=289&a=va"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%">Four Decades of Kidney Transplantation in Cuba</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="subtitle"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: windowtext;">Jorge P. Alfonzo MD PhD<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#006566">Perspective<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="bodytext"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=290&a=va">Evidence
of Association between Type 1 Diabetes and Exposure to <o:p></o:p></a></span></b></div>
<div class="bodytext"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=290&a=va">Enterovirus
in Cuban Children and Adolescents</a></span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:ES-AR">Luis Sarmiento MS PhD, et al.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:ES-AR"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="bodytext"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=291&a=va">Usefulness
of Nuclear Cardiology Techniques for Silent Ischemia Detection<o:p></o:p></a></span></b></div>
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Diabetics</a></span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Amalia
Peix MD PhD DrSc<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<div class="bodytext"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=292&a=va">Oxidative
Stress and Birth Defects in Infants of Women with <span lang="ES-AR">Pregestational Diabetes</span></a></span></b><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:120%;mso-ansi-language:ES-AR"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:ES-AR">Sonia Clapés PhD, et al.</span></i><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
ES-AR"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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color:#006566">Abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=294&a=va"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cuban Research in
Current International Journals</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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color:#006566">Viewpoint<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="bodytext"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=293&a=va"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%">Mother’s Milk Still Best—and We Must Do Better</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
120%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:ES-AR">Nélida L. Sarasa Muñoz MD MS PhD<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=23&id=283&a=va"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Learn more about the
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Review: The International Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is a quarterly,
peer-reviewed, open-access journal publishing original articles by Cuban and
international researchers on themes such as Cuban population health, strategies
for health equity, policy and practice, biomedical R&D, health systems,
health outcomes, human resources in health, and international cooperation in
the health sector. <b><i>MEDICC Review</i></b> is published by <b>Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba
(MEDICC)</b>, a non-profit organization working to enhance cooperation among
the US, Cuban and global health communities aimed at better health outcomes. </span><a href="http://www.medicc.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.medicc.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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