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Subject: Cuba Develops Anti-Cancer Drug from Blue Scorpion Venom
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Cuba Develops Anti-Cancer Drug from Blue Scorpion Venom
Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit
BREAKTHROUGH
Radio Havana Cuba's Science, Technology and Environment Update
Sunday, 26 November, 2000
by Arnaldo Coro, RHC's Science Editor
In Guantanamo province, at the very extreme easten end of the island
of Cuba, there is a medical university. The Facultad de Ciencias
Medicas of Guantanamo or in English, the Guantanamo Medical School,
is not only engaged in actively training doctors and nurses at both
the pre-graduate and the post-graduate level... There, professors and
students are also involved in several very interesting research
projects. The most important and certainly very significant one has
just completed all the paperwork for a patent application that was
granted by the National Patent Office of the Ministry of Science,
Technology and the Environment.
The patented pharmaceutical developed in Guantanamo is a new anti-
cancer drug that is obtained from blue scorpion venom.
The name of the new anti-cancer drug is ESCOAZUL and tests have now
been completed with some three thousand patients, with very promising
results. ESCOAZUL was also tested with patients who had Parkinson's
disease and kidney disfunction, who also evolved satisfactorily when
the new drug was given to them as a diluted oral preparation of the
cuban blue scorpion venom.
All the human subject research was carried out according to the
strict international standards for toxicologic research, and after
more than seven years of animal experiments done with albino rats
that supplied by the National Center for the Production of Laboratory
Animals -- which guaranteed their genetic uniformity, vital for this
type of research project.
The ESCOAZUL anti-tumor pharmaceutical is now patented, but its
future commercial availability is still some time away, according to
Misael Bordier, a researcher at Guantanamo's Medical School
laboratories and the person who leads the interdisciplinary research
team that created the new anti-cancer and anti-inflamatory drug from
the Cuban blue scorpion venom.
Preliminary reports on the more than three thousand patients treated
so far are very encouraging, showing a high degree of effectiveness,
but as Dr. Bordier explains, it is still early, and the
pharmaceutical is still in what he describes as an experimental
phase.
The Cuban Public Health authorities granted Dr. Bordier and his
research group a permit to carry on experimental work on human
patients, and this work has resulted also in additional findings that
show ESCOAZUL has remarkable anti-inflammatory properties and also
acts as a stabilizer of the human immune system.
The already granted patent protection is a very important step for
this unique research project which, according to Cuban scientists who
have worked on other similar pharmaceuticals, will very likely lead
to a fully commercial drug that can be added to the already existing
ones for cancer treatment.
And this was Breakthrough, a report on research into using blue
scorpion venom to forumulate a new anti-cancer, anti-filammatory
drug.
Read "Breakthrough" every week on NY Transfer's Radio Havana Cuba
website, at http://www.radiohc.org/dxers/
(c) 2000 Arnaldo Coro, Radio Habana Cuba, NY Transfer News. All
rights reserved.
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Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:59:09 -0500
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Subject: Six Brit Spies Released by Cuba, Says England
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Six Brit Spies Released by Cuba, Says England
Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit
Saturday November 25 7:01 PM ET (via yahoo)
Britons Held in Cuba Said Released
LONDON (AP) - Seven Britons detained in Cuba on suspicion of carrying
out a private `spy mission'' have been released, the Foreign Office
said Saturday.
The six men and one woman are now free to return to Britain,
officials said. It was not immediately clear when they would leave
Cuba.
`We welcome the Cuban authorities' decisions, following our requests
to either charge or release the British detainees,'' said Baroness
Patricia Scotland, the British minister in charge of the Caribbean
for the Foreign Office.
The seven were never formally charged, but Foreign Office minister
Peter Hain said Cuban authorities believed the Britons had been
involved `in some type of spy mission in Cuba, of the private
investigation kind.''
While British officials have not released details on why the group
was in Cuba, Press Association, the British news agency, and other
British media have reported that six of the seven were men hired as
private investigators by a businessman's wife to follow her husband.
The seventh reportedly was the girlfriend of one of the men.
The Britons were detained on Oct. 9, but British officials were
denied access to them for more than two weeks. After Britain formally
complained to Cuba and summoned Cuban Charge d'Affaires Oscar de los
Reyes to a meeting in the Foreign Office, British officials were
allowed regular contact with the group.
The detentions came a month after British and Cuban officials signed
a letter of intent to cooperate in the exchange of prisoners.
In September, Cuba released and deported two British women who were
serving 15-year prison terms after being arrested in 1998 and
convicted of drug trafficking. Two British men and four Jamaicans
remain imprisoned in Cuba in the same case.
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