Word: treating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Association, a U.S. research and professional organization, reported last year that health standards in Cuba have "declined dramatically" over the past two to three years. Physicians fear that deteriorating sanitary conditions will bring back dysentery and typhoid, since soap and detergents are in short supply, as is chlorine to treat the water supply. The incidence of hepatitis A and diarrhea is on the rise, and infant tuberculosis is a growing problem in poor sections of Havana...
...embargo has tightened, Cuba has had to import more drugs from Europe, Japan and Canada, tripling costs of the medications needed to treat and prevent, for example, typhoid and whooping cough. A 1992 U.S. law forbids foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to sell to Cuba; Dutch and Swedish firms report that they too are being pressured by Washington to stop providing such items as catheters and sutures. A Canadian firm was even barred from selling Cuba a U.S.-made steel pin to repair a broken operating table. Medical journals are included under the embargo...
...Canada's (7 per 1,000 in 1992) and the U.S.'s (9 per 1,000) in the western hemisphere, according to PAHO. Though hard-pressed for basic supplies, Cuban biotech labs still produce the world's only meningitis B vaccine, as well as 39 monoclonal antibodies for treating cancer. The Neurotransplant Center in Havana is rated the best in the world for fetal-tissue transplants to treat Parkinson's disease, a degenerative brain disorder that causes muscle tremors and weakness. One of Cuba's most popular new over-the-counter drugs is PPG, a sugar cane-based medication developed...
...produces 300 different types -- are making a vigorous comeback. "People used to say only witches and the uneducated used herbs, but as times and politics have changed, we have turned to medicina verde," says Dr. Majmud Gomez, a family doctor in Pinar del Rio. He uses herbal preparations to treat a variety of conditions, from parasites to a problem caused by the soap shortage, an itch for which he prescribes a pomade made from the majagua tree...
...increase of about $67 is much less than the cost of raising another child, welfare mothers didn't really have much economic incentive to have more kids. But this above all is a symbolic issue, a chance for the government to send a message about how it plans to treat parents who have children they cannot afford...