The economic, financial and trade blockade the US Government on Cuba has caused the island”s health system damages for over 2.5 billion dollars in almost 60 years, its Foreign Ministry upholds.
More than one million people live with diabetes in Cuba, but only 700,000 are registered, warn experts from the island, according to an article published today in Granma newspaper
The only survivor of the plane crash in Cuba on May 18, Mailen Diaz Almaguer, is continuing his recovery and has started rehabilitation at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital in this capital.
The survival of critically ill newborns and infant mortality are among the health services that currently maintain first-world indicators in this central Cuban province.
Agencies are facing greater challenges today in managing and containing the new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the epicenter is an area of active conflict.
Cubans began on Monday a nation-wide public discussion around the text of a new constitution for the island that’s revealing a truly participatory angle to democracy here.
The Cunagua Hill surrounded by a wide range of green trees is a protected area located to the northeast of this Cuban city and one of the most attractive natural sites for ecotourism in the region.
This Cuban central province will be hosting a national Scientific Meeting on occasion of the World Breastfeeding Week that takes place in the country from August 1 to 7.
A medication for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction, developed by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), will be available in Cuba next year, the Granma newspaper announced today.
Cuban maxillofacial surgeon Osdany Cancio participated in the medical team that pulled out a four-kilogram tumor lodged in the neck of a pregnant Mozambican woman, Cuban diplomatic sources said today.
Amid the socioeconomic and political crisis, pregnant women have now a new inconvenience, because Doctors without Borders (MSF) closed its mother-child hospital, so the project will be gradually dismantled in Haiti.
Cuban Deputy Minister of Public Health Alfredo Gonzalez completed a visit to South Africa today, during which he met with local authorities on existing cooperation in this sector and its future development.
Mali”s government received 30 scholarships from Cuba for the study of Sports Medicine by young people who will travel to the Caribbean country from next September, according to a bilateral agreement announced today.
Cuban Deputy Minister of Health, Alfredo Gonzalez, holds meetings in this capital with union leaders, foreign ministry officials and the presidential minister Nkosozana Dlamini Zuma, the embassy of that South African country reported.
Several research projects are developed by the Cuban biopharmaceutical industry, including those aimed at preventing and treating neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases and cancer, according to officials from the sector.
The Presidents of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and El Salvador, Salvador Ceren, reaffirmed today their solidarity with Nicaragua and the government led by Daniel Ortega at the 24th Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum.
The first group of some 700 young South Africans who completed five-year medical studies in Cuba arrived in this capital from Havana and were welcomed with a ceremony at the Oliver Tambo airport in Johannesburg.
Summer and sunSummer and sunIn general, people enjoy the sun. In other times it was even worshiped as a deity. For some people being tanned by the sun has become a sign of distinction. It is the equivalent of getting allowed himself the luxury of spending a holiday on the beach on summer days.
Delegates from some 10 countries will attend the 4th Congress of the Cuban Society of Natural and Traditional Medicine, BIONAT 2018, to evaluate experiences on the advances of the specialty, the organizers reported today.
