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Cuba to Preside Over World Health Assembly

Cuba will preside this year over the 67th World Health Assembly, a recognition due to the Revolution achievements in this sphere, and its role in the international arena Read More

Cuba ends 2013 with lowest infant mortality rate in its history

Cuba ended 2013 with an infant mortality rate of 4.2 per 1,000 live births, the lowest level in the island's history, state media reported Read More

Cuban Doctors Care for Evacuees in Brazilian State

Doctors of the program More Doctors provide their services voluntarily to the evacuees in the town Serra, in the west of the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, for 10 days affected by heavy rains Read More

Cuban Woman Flies to Miami To Donate Bone Marrow to Sister

A Cuban woman arrived at Miami International Airport Monday, determined to save her sister's life Read More

Cuba Ready to Strengthen Epidemiological Control Measures

The Cuban Public Health Minister, Roberto Morales, urged to step up measures to control dissimilar diseases that can affect the island today Read More

Brazil may raise number of Cuban doctors again

The Brazilian government will evaluate the number of doctors needed under the Mais Médicos program in March, President Dilma Rousseff announced during a visit of a Cuban-staffed hospital near São Paulo Read More

Cuban doctors to arrive in Ecuador in December

The first of 1,000 Cuban mostly primary-care physicians will begin arriving in Ecuador in December, under agreements signed by the health ministries of Cuba and Ecuador last week in Havana. Read More

Princeton University Confronts Meningitis Epidemic Preventable in Cuba

The vaccine’s name is VA-MENGOC-BC, and it comes from Cuba. Under the anti-Cuban U.S. economic blockade, Cuban exports to the United States are forbidden. Read More

Over half million Cubans have diabetes

The number of diabetics in Cuba has doubled over the last decade, reaching more than half million at the end of 2012 Read More

Cuban Health Minister Defends Sending Doctors to Brazil

Minister of Health Roberto Morales Ojeda became the first Cuban government to comment on the criticisms leveled by Brazilian doctors to the agreement that allows Brazil to “import” several thousand Cuban MDs to work in places with poor health care services, reported dpa news. Read More

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