In order to improve the quality of life of patients with heart diseases, theCuban Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery is developing a research project for the application of biomarkers in the practice of rehabilitation exercises.

The prevention, timely diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases is today a priority in Cuba, as it is the leading cause of death in the country, Juan Prohias Martinez, head of the National Cardiology Group of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap), told the Cuban News Agency.

A surgical procedure via endoscopy for the treatment of a trauma known as spring chain was successfully performed today on a 15-year-old adolescent from the central eastern province of Camaguey at the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Pediatric Hospital in this city.

The project "Expansion of differentiated services of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) for key population groups in the Republic of Cuba" renewed cooperation between Cuban and foreign health institutions.

The Agency for Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies (Aenta by its Spanish acronym) confirmed the organization tomorrow in Havana of scientific sessions on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its constitution in 1994, when the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (Citma by its Spanish acronym) was also created.

An observatory for the specialty of Neonatal Surgery is operating at the Octavio de la Concepcion y de la Pedraja Pediatric Hospital in Holguin, aimed at reducing the infant mortality rate and improving the care of surgical neonates.

Specialists from the Isotope Center (Centis by its Spanish acronym) have been assigned the task of providing hormone determinations by radioimmunoassay (RIA) methods to 15 hospital institutions of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap by its Spanish acronym).

Cuban deputy Minster of Science, Technology and the Environment, Armando Rodriguez, is heading a delegation of scientists to Russia, where they have met with their local colleagues on different projects and cooperation prospects.

Healthcare in Cuba is a basic human right stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic and backed by the implementation of the Public Health Law.

More than 600 delegates from 38 countries will gather at the Plaza America Convention Center for the 2nd edition of the international congress BioHabana, which begins tonight in the seaside resort city and will be attended by George Pearson, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

Based on Marti's premise that "it is not received and casual intelligence that gives man honor, but how he uses and saves it, for serving is the only way to live on", the 3rd International Scientific Congress “University-Society 2024”, organized by the University of Matanzas (UM), kicked off in this city.

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC by its Spanish acronym) mourned the death, at 65, of Amelia Capote Rodriguez, PhD in Biological Sciences since 1993, Agricultural Engineer, Professor and Senior Researcher at the Alejandro de Humboldt Institute for Fundamental Research in Tropical Agriculture (INIFAT by its Spanish acronym).

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that the island’s medical brigade in Haiti keeps working although with limitations imposed by the circumstances and only with crucial personnel.

PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, Mar 15 (ACN) After finishing the work of waterproofing the roofs of the Abel Santamaria Cuadrado general teaching hospital, Pinar del Rio has reestablished the elective ophthalmologic surgery service.