Health and Medicine

Choose a healthy recreation

Cuban children, adolescents and youths already enjoy the holiday period, after the academic year in the different teachings. There are many ways of having fun in these months of July and August, although in spite of the high temperatures that falls on our surroundings. Read More

Nearly 10.000 venezuelan patients treated in Cuba

Some 10.000 Venezuelans have been treated in the Havana-based Cira Garcia Hospital since Cuba and Venezuela began implementing a health cooperation agreement in 2001. According to the head of the department of medical records in the healthcare institution, Antolín Lovaina Gil, 950 Venezuelan patients have undergone aesthetic, orthopedic or brain surgery. Read More

Treatment against varicose veins

Experts from Havana are working on a new treatment against varicose veins in the lower limbs. Doctors at the Freyre de Andrade Clinical-Surgical Hospital noted that the new method is painless, ambulatory, less invasive, and has no medical restrictions for its use, as the patient is not anesthetized. Read More

About 100,000 bolivians recover sight

Some 100,000 people have so far recovered sight in Bolivia, thanks to the Operation Miracle, a free eye surgery program started with Cuba's support last year. Read More

Cuban docs climb Pacaya Volcano in Guatemala.

At the top of Guatemala's Pacaya volcano, members of the Cuban medical brigade in that country reaffirmed their commitment to provide assistance to the world's needy. Read More

Bio-Meteorological Weather Forecasting, a Scientific Novelty

Cuban scientists have designed a bio-meteorological forecasting system aiming at determining with enough advance time, when atmospheric conditions can lead to a sudden rise in a group of chronic and non-communicable diseases, including bronchial asthma, high blood pressure, cardiovascular problems, headaches and other pathologies. Read More

Cuba graduates doctors from Haiti and and Mali

Health and Medicine

109 doctors from Haiti and Mali will be graduating in Cub a this year. Over many years more than 6.500 professionals including 569 international students (most of them from third world countries)have graduated from the Santiago de Cuba medical faculty. Read More

Lowest infant death rate reported by Cuban eastern province

Health and Medicine

Las Tunas has reported the lowest infant death rate in its history for January-June period, with only three deaths per thousand live births. Read More