SiCKO patients got VIP treatment in Cuba
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Three New York rescue workers injured in the September 11 attacks got the best treatment Cuba can offer in Michael Moore's film critique of U.S. health care, the Cuban doctors who attended them said this week.
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By Jose Pagliery, The Miami Herald  Feb. 8--After 10 years wading through bureaucracy in the healthcare industry, Mario Yanez had had enough. He longed to separate himself from what he considered the dull business world and connect to a life outside of the city's concrete buildings.
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SANTIAGO/HAVANA  - Fighting serious illnesses in their old age, Cold War icons Fidel Castro of Cuba and Augusto Pinochet of Chile are united in stubborn adherence to their opposing and now largely unfashionable ideologies.
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The Ministry of Health is looking at the possibility of opening a unit at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital where HIV/AIDS patients will be treated.
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The Communist leadership assured Cubans on Friday that Raul Castro was in firm control as acting president, and the health minister said Fidel Castro was "recovering satisfactorily" from intestinal surgery.
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Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona was having medical examinations in Cuba on Tuesday and received a message of support from President Fidel Castro for his latest
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A huge U.S. Navy hospital ship brought state-of-the-art medical care to the Western Hemisphere's poorest country this week during a regional goodwill mission aimed at countering leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's influence.
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The number of AIDS patients receiving life-saving drug treatment in poor nations rose 60 percent in the past six months.
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A tuberculosis patient under the first federal quarantine since 1963 because of a rare and dangerous strain of the disease was flown to Denver for treatment Thursday at a hospital that specializes in respiratory disorders, officials said.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he has   put the worst of his health crisis behind him and will be able   to receive foreign dignitaries in private during a summit of   developing nations next week.
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A man who had been quarantined with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis for nearly a year was being transferred Thursday to a hospital in Colorado.
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In his first statement on his health in 10 months, Cuba's President Castro says he has had several operations.
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THE FREED: Cuba unexpectedly releases for health reasons three political dissidents: economics writer Oscar Espinosa Chepe, who has a liver ailment, Marcelo Lopez, who has a neurological
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Cubans worried about political turmoil expressed relief on Wednesday that ailing leader Fidel Castro was apparently recovering from intestinal surgery that forced him to hand over power to his brother six months ago.
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A jailed former oil executive gravely  ill with HIV/AIDS was transferred to a specialist clinic on  Friday, Russia's prison service said, following an  international campaign on his behalf.
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One of the two patients hospitalized at Bayonne Medical Center in connection with a recent botulism poisoning has apparently been transferred to a different hospital.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro's health is improving because he is now eating, the ambassador to Cuba from ally Venezuela said on Thursday, without making clear when Castro had been unable to eat.