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Cimavax-EGF: Cuban lung cancer vaccine

Cuba does not leave the front pages of newspapers. The cause this time is Cimavax-EGF, the first therapeutic vaccine discovered helping to slow the progression and metastasis of lung cancer, fourth leading cause of death in the Caribbean island. Read More

Cuba will show results of lung cancer vaccine

The final results of the efficacy confirmation study of the Cuban vaccine CIMAvax-EGF in advanced lung cancer will be presented at the 5th International Workshop on the subject next Tuesday and Wednesday in Havana. Read More

Cuban Doctors to Travel to Nepal to Help Earthquake Victims

The Health Minister of Nepal, Khem Karki, announced the creation of a mobile hospital where Cuban doctors will work, due to the hospital emergency left by the earthquake. Read More

Cuban medical brigade completes its work in Liberia

As Liberia enters its second week with no new cases of Ebola, the Embassy of Cuba in Monrovia officially announced during a farewell ceremony the end of the mission of a medical team sent by the authorities of the island to the West African country ravaged by virus. Read More

The Brazilian government criticized the measures taken by Cuba about the family of doctors who provide collaboration in Brazil

The president of the Brazilian Medical Association (AMB), Florentino Cardoso, described as "excessive cruelty" the pressure that Cuban government is creating to the families of participating doctors in the Brazilian program "More doctors", to return to the island. Read More

Started in Cuba polio vaccination campaign

Nearly half a million Cuban children will be immunized as part of the National Polio Vaccination Campaign that takes place from Monday until next March 15. Read More

Botswana also has the attention of Cuban doctors

Almost a hundred Cuban health collaborators provide services in Botswana, now with the arrival in this country in southern Africa with a new group of 21 specialists. Read More

Cuban doctors will provide services in Bahrain

A group of Cuban doctors will start working in Bahrain as part of an agreement signed between the governments of both countries in August 2014, Cuban Foreign Ministry reported. Read More

More than 120,000 patients have been treated at the CIREN

Since its founding on February 26, 1989, the International Center for Neurological Restoration (CIREN) has treated 120,000 patients from 93 countries, including Cuba. Read More

Studies to find a vaccine against cholera are advanced in Cuba

Cuba is already in an advanced stage of clinical trials for the search for a vaccine against cholera, said Dr. Rafael Fando, from National Center for Scientific Research (CNIC). Read More

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