July 25, 2004 The Sunday Observer
	Dengue control: Experts fly to Cuba -- A team of medical experts will soon fly to Cuba to study its methods, including the effectiveness of 'Bacillus thuringien' (BT) bacteria, used by Cuba in eradicating dengue mosquito menace, Health and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told the 'Sunday Observer', yesterday.
July 24, 2004 People's Weekly World Newspaper
	Cuba offers 'ray of light' in cancer battle -- For the first time a U.S. company signed an agreement with a Cuban firm to develop and test anti-cancer drugs. The U.S. government broke with its long-standing trade embargo and gave a green light to California-based CancerVax to enter into a deal with Havana’s Center for Molecular Immunology (CIMAB, SA).
July 15, 2004 Reuters
	Cuba to Help Caribbean Fight AIDS -- Cuba offered on Thursday to build training centers for nurses to handle AIDS patients in Caribbean nations and provide antiretroviral drugs to fight the pandemic. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque made the offer at a one-day meeting with counterparts from the Caribbean Community (Caricom).
July 05, 2004 The Dallas Morning News
	Cuba Rules Scare Medical Students -- American medical students in Cuba have rushed back to the United States, missing their final exams, over fears that U.S. authorities will jail them, fine them thousands of dollars, or revoke their citizenship for studying medicine on the island. James Cason, the top U.S. diplomat in Cuba, said he wasn't aware the American students were cutting their educations short.
January 31, 2004 Granma International
	Vacuna Cubana Contra el Cólera -- Este año deben comenzar los ensayos clínicos con la vacuna cubana contra el cólera, en países donde hay incidencia de esta enfermedad, como Sudáfrica, Mozambique e India.
January 04, 2004 By Marta Denis Valle
	New Cuban Law: Shared Maternity -- Havana. - Cuban law now protects mothers and fathers who decide by mutual accord that they want to share the child-raising role after the breastfeeding period, without having to worry about irate bosses.
November 29, 2003 The Economist
	Truly revolutionary - Cuba's biotech boom -- INTEREST in Cuba's unique brand of biotechnology has been growing since May 2002, when America's undersecretary of state, John Bolton, said that the island was developing "a limited offensive biological warfare" programme. The Cubans vehemently denied this. Whatever the truth of that claim, one thing is clear: Fidel Castro's scientists have been churning out an impressive line of genetically engineered products, from fast-growing fish to recombinant vaccines and cancer therapeutics.
November 28, 2003 delfines@enet.cu
	The World's First Synthetic Vaccine for Children: -- A new Cuban vaccine has just been announced against the bacteria that causes meningitis and pneumonia primarily in children up to five years of age. The breakthrough vaccine, produced with an innovative technology that was jointly patented in 1999 by the University of Havana and the University of Ottawa, is also the world's first human vaccine with a synthetic antigen.
November 25, 2003 The Wallstreet Journal
	A Biotechnology Powerhouse Is Emerging Off Our Shores -- Boasting one of the most developed biotech industries in the Third World, Cuba recently announced its researchers created a low-cost synthetic vaccine to combat respiratory infections in children -- specifically those caused by the bacteria haemophilus influenzae type B, Wired News reported1.
November 23, 2003 Reuters
	Cuban Vaccine to Help Poor Kids -- HAVANA -- Cuban researchers have developed the first synthetic vaccine against a bacteria that causes pneumonia and meningitis, a breakthrough aimed at lowering the cost of immunizing children in poorer countries.
January 16, 2003 The Chicago Tribune
	Cuban Medical School -- Medical school in Cuba reaches out to minorities. About 60 Americans are enrolled in Castro's free 6-year program, but they face uncertain prospects