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Cuba working to develop vaccine against dengue fever

Cuba is accelerating its efforts to develop a vaccine against dengue fever, an illness endemic to tropical countries and that kills thousands each year. Read More

Elders in Cuban Spotlight

The aging population and problems among the elderly will be at the center of an international forum to be held this month in the Cuban eastern city of Bayamo Read More

East Timor: thanks for our doctors Cuba

Timor Leste Prime Minister Jose Ramon Horta expressed gratitude to Cuba on Monday for providing medical training to almost 500 young people from that small insular Southeast Asian state. Read More

Cuba hosts Biotechnology Congress

Cuba will present its experience in the field of biotechnology at Havana's Biotechnology Congress 2006 taking place from November 13 to 16. Read More

Cuba strengthens medical image network

Cuba's health system enjoys the benefits of a national medical image network that allows exchange among doctors on specific diseases. Read More

Cuba chairs Regional Anesthesiology Organization

The 7th Central American and Caribbean Congress on Anesthesiology, closing Sunday in Santo Domingo, unanimously elected Cuba as the president of that regional body until 2008. Read More

Thai boxer Manus cleans up his act, eyes gold

Thailand's wayward boxer Manus Boonjumnong is a reformed character and is determined to win an Asian Games gold after a two-year absence from the ring. Read More

Not just tourists bring more than luggage to Cuba

Some travellers from Ontario and Alberta have been bringing more than just tourist dollars to countries such as Cuba " they're also packing badly needed medical supplies. Read More

China passes cuban cholesterol drug

Chinese health authorities granted permission to polycosanol, a new anti-cholesterol drug made in Cuba, to be marketed in the Asian nation, Read More

Cuba, South Africa seal bio-sciences deals

Cuba and South Africa has inked several agreements on biomedical and veterinarian sciences that invigorate their bilateral trade and political ties. Read More

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