Cuba Offers Diabetes Drug to U.S.
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- Health and Medicine
- 08 / 12 / 2009
Cuba's most prominent biotech center has offered a license to 18 pharmaceutical companies in the US to commercialize a diabetes medication.
Successful treatment helps prevent patients from lower-limb amputation. After being used for six months, the remedy has benefited over 7-hundred patients in Cuba.
Medical specialists say the US is one of the nations where diabetic amputations have become most prevalent.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 170-million people worldwide suffer from Diabetes Mellitus. They say the figure is likely to double over the next few years.
Source: CCTV
Successful treatment helps prevent patients from lower-limb amputation. After being used for six months, the remedy has benefited over 7-hundred patients in Cuba.
Medical specialists say the US is one of the nations where diabetic amputations have become most prevalent.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 170-million people worldwide suffer from Diabetes Mellitus. They say the figure is likely to double over the next few years.
Source: CCTV
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