Montevideo Science & Technology News

A laptop is now finding its place alongside a notebook and pen in schoolbags in Uruguay, the first and only country to offer an Internet-connected computers to all public primary school students. In the small town of Poquitos, some 30km...

The girls who attend the school of Villa Garc�a, a township on the outskirts of the Uruguayan capital, are still playing dolls and dress up - only now they do it on their laptop computers. After they finish grade school,...

President Tabaré Vázquez presented the final XO model laptops to pupils at a school in Montevideo on 13 October. Over the last two years 362,000 pupils and 18,000 teachers have been involved in the scheme. The "Plan Ceibal" (Education Connect)...

Rodrigo, from Hospital Central de las Fuerzas Armadas in Montevideo, Uruguay, and his associates point out in the October issue of the journal Chest...Moreover, compared with the single-drug approach, the two-drug approach produced significantly greater improvements in lung function and...