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Cuba designs program against cardiovascular diseases

Cuban health authorities expect to reduce the number of deaths due to cardiovascular diseases by 30 percent, as a result of a nationwide program that is currently underway. In order to achieve that goal, authorities are promoting activities to encourage healthy habits, improve diagnoses, train the medical staff, educate the people, and develop epidemiologic and medical research. Read More

Zimbabwe: Cuba Pledges to Send More Doctors, Specialists

Cuba has pledged to send additional doctors and medical specialists to Zimbabwe in a bid to alleviate the crippling shortage of manpower in the health sector. Visiting Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs responsible for International Co-operation Cde Yillian Jiamenz yesterday told Health and Child Welfare Minister Read More

Hippocrates Meets Fidel, and Even U.S. Students Enroll

The Latin American School of Medical Sciences, on a sprawling former naval base on the outskirts of this capital, teaches its students medicine Cuban style. That means poking at cadavers, peering into aging microscopes and discussing the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power 48 years ago. Read More

Dominica's prime minister heads to Cuba for surgery

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit will travel to Havana this weekend where Cuban doctors will remove a metal pin from his right leg, the Caribbean island's prime minister said yesterday. Read More

Cuba and China build eye clinic in Qinghai

China and Cuba have joined together to build an ophthalmologic hospital in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai. The China-Cuba Friendship Ophthalmologic Hospital of Xining, the provincial seat of Qinghai, has a constructed area of 4,000 sq. meters, with 80 beds and a staff of 135, including 52 from Cuba. Read More

Cuba Tests Early Pregnancy Reactive

A bio reactive strip to detect pregnancy and cysts early, developed by CIGB (Genetics Engineering and Biotechnology Center) of Sancti Spiritus, is being tested in that central Cuban province. The reactive strip Heber FastLine Embarazo (pregnancy) is being applied for local women who seek menstrual regulation, with 99.8 percent sensitivity. Read More

Cuba, Belize for Medical Co-op

Cuba s ambassador to Belize Eugenio Martinez Enriquez ratified the Revolution s commitment to deepen cooperation with this country, where Cuban physicians, nurses and health technicians are currently working. Read More

Cuba and Venezuela marks health accord anniversary

The 6th anniversary of a Cuba-Venezuela agreement which provides integral healthcare for patients in that South American nation has been marked by Cuban authorities. Read More

New Cuban drug on trial

Experts from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba are testing a new drug to treat ulcers in diabetic feet. The Saturnino Lora and Joaquín Castillo Duany hospitals were included in a nationwide program to validate the efficacy of the drug. Read More

Cuba marks Latin American Medicine Day

The national act for the Latin American Medicine Day, on the occasion of Cuban scientist Carlos J. Finlay's birthday, will be held Sunday in Cumanayagua, in the central province of Cienfuegos. Read More

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