Improved primary healthcare in Matanzas

The health system in the western Cuban province of Matanzas has benefited from the inauguration of new facilities to provide primary healthcare. In that regard, more than 36,000 residents in the municipalities of Limonar and Unión de Reyes have benefited from new services at local polyclinics. Read More

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Cuba retakes dengue battle

Cuba has begun its second national campaign against the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the dengue transmitting agent, a defensive operation to preserve human lives. Read More

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Doctors who graduated in Cuba demand right to practice

Young Honduran doctors who graduated from the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) protested in front of the HonduranSchool of Medicine and the Supreme Court Read More

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Amanda is alive thanks to the development of the cuban science

Six years ago when Amanda was only two years old, doctors of the pediatric Center in Santiago de Cuba assisted her and diagnostic leukemia, thats why, she was remitting to Havana, the Cubans Capital. Read More

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Cuba's Las Tunas has record low infant death rate

The Cuban province of Las Tunas welcomed International Children's Day with an infant mortality rate of 3.6 deaths per thousand live births, the lowest record in local history for the period between January and May. Read More

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Spanish expert lauds Cuban Health Care

The humanistic and scientific nature of Cuban traditional and preventive medicine were extolled by Carlos Bermejo, Doctor in Sanitary Pastoral Theology. The also director of the Centro de Humanizacion de la Salud, in Tres Cantos, Madrid, and author of more than 30 books also lauded the professionalism of Cuban doctors, nurses and parameds. Read More

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Cuba, Pinar del Rio and the stem cells

A new age is coming for medicine with the implantation of stem cells, which has emerged in the scientific world with a huge impact in biology and biomedicine. Read More

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Sign Language Interpreters Serving in Santiago de Cuba Schools

In Cuba, people who are deaf can study at all educational levels thanks to the effort of the government to guarantee "free of charge" sign language interpreters in all schools, from the elementary level to the university. Read More

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Cuban Drug against Diabetic Foot Ulcer Available

The new drug HEBERPROT-P, created by Cuban scientists, now has an international patent and is available for people who suffer from complex diabetic foot ulcers, including neuropathic or neuroischemic patients Read More

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Cuba counts 89,000 nursing professionals

Five hundred delegates from Cuba and other 16 countries are taking part in the 17th Congress of the Cuban Society of Nursing and the first Cuban Symposium of Palliative Care will session from Monday May 28 to Friday June 1, 2007 at the Havana Convention Center Read More

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