The Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (Cecmed by its Spanish acronym) granted the Conditional Sanitary Registration to Nasalferon, a nasal application solution for the prophylaxis of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Cuba and Rwanda ratified their will to strengthen ties in the field of health care with the signing of a memorandum of understanding by the Ministers of both countries, namely José Ángel Portal and Sabin Nsanzimana, respectively.

Faced with the growing trend of population aging in the cental province of Sancti Spiritus, a territory with the third highest longevity rate in Cuba, this territory is strengthening comprehensive interdisciplinary care for the elderly in different areas of health and social institutions.

An unusual event overturned Dr. Niurys Aguilar Ramirez's on-call duty on February 29 when she received Henry Cristian, a 13-year-old boy with a life-threatening harpoon in his abdominal area, at the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Pediatric Hospital in this central-eastern Cuban city.

The National Center of Applied Electromagnetism of the University of Oriente, in this eastern city, favors the operation of rehabilitation therapies with the local magnetic stimulator Nak, created to reduce pain and inflammations.

On the occasion of International Cochlear Implant Day, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez stressed that the national cochlear implant program, one of the most sensitive and humane policies launched by the Revolution which has benefited more than 500 deaf and deaf-blind patients, remains a priority of the Cuban health system despite the shortages caused by the U.S. blockade.

In a ceremony presided by José Angel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health, 905 graduates received their diplomas from various schools of Havana’s University of Medical Sciences.

With the innovative use of catheters for the removal of contraceptive implants, the Ramon Lopez Peña polyclinic in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba contributes to the improvement of the Family Planning and Reproductive Risk Program.

The William Soler Pediatric Hospital and the Institute of Gastroenterology received donations this weekend from the U.S. solidarity organizations CodePink and Bridges of Love, the Foreign Ministry said today.

A group of 16 results achieved in 2023 by the Agency for Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies (AENTA by its Spanish acronym) for their contribution to knowledge and some in collaboration with the Russian Federation and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Cuban doctor Alfredo Dario Espinosa, who bears the tittle of Cuban Labor Hero, was granted the Pan-American Health Organization's Award for Health Services Management and Leadership 2023.

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC by its Spanish acronym)expressed its condolences for the recent death at the age of 88 of Emilio Garcia Capote, one of the country's first analysts on issues of scientific and technological policy and its relations with economic and social development.

As a result of scientific work in the institutions belonging to the Ministry of Higher Education (MES by its Spanish acronym) during 2023, more than 1,300 projects were developed, which contributed to national, sectoral, territorial and business programs.

A unique project in Cuba to reduce the danger, vulnerability and risk to diseases and the negative impact of climate change, through the interrelation of disciplines is being developed in the province of Holguin.