The 9th Congress of Microbiology and Parasitology begins today its scientific sessions to debate around the branches of medicine studying infectious diseases.

The head of the Neurology Service of the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital in Havana Dr. Nelson Gomez Viera said on Thursday in the Cuban capital that science is nourished with scientific evidence.

The 40 Cuban health professionals, who helped the victims of the last September´s earthquakes in Mexico, returned today to Cuba after a moving good-bye filled with endless expressions of gratitude by the authorities and the population of the City of Ixtepec, in the state of Oaxaca.

The 11th International Symposium Wetlands 2017 dedicated on Wednesday a space to promote the preservation of peatlands in the Caribbean, which are accumulated organic material that are valuable reserves of carbon in the swampy ecosystems.

The International Wetlands 2017 Symposium began on Tuesday with discussions on the need of an efficient water management in Cuba before the effects of climate change.

Cuba will present its experience in the program on the attention of diabetic people with emphasis in the education of the illness from the level of primary health attention during the 9th Endocrinology Congress and the 3rd on Reproductive Health for Diabetic Women to be held in Havana from November 8th to the 10th.

Biocubafarma Information Technologies Company and the Cuban Informatics Association (UIC), signed on Wednesday in Havana a cooperation agreement as part of the Cyber Society 2017 International Congress underway at the Melia Marina Varadero Hotel.

More than 3,400 people with visual disabilities in Cuba hold a job, it was reported at two national events on employment and accessibility, respectively, underway in the southern Cuban city of Cienfuegos.

Personalities and former students from Ethiopia, Namibia, Ghana and Nicaragua praised the internationalist education program launched on Isle of Youth 40 years ago on the initiative of Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro.

The 11th Cuban Congress on Anesthesiology, Revival and Pain entitled "Cubaestesia 2017" to be held in Havana with discussions on the implication of anesthesia techniques in senior citizens, obese and critical patients when they require surgery with certain complications.

Che's example will have to always be among us if we want to be a true health professional, said Maria del Carmen Amaro Cano during the "Che Doctor, Humanist and Revolutionary Colloquium".

Cuba has excellent training in nursing which is reflected in the early advancement of specialization, said Chilean Erika Caballero.

Dr. Alberto Hernandez Canero, one of the main founders of the National Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery Institute and its first Director died on Tuesday in Havana at the age of 97.

Heberferon, the only Cuban drug of its kind in the world for the treatment of basal cell carcinoma of the skin, is already available throughout the national territory, barely six months after beginning of the program for its extension.