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.

Renowned Cuban and foreign experts will meet from this Monday until the 18th of this month at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí (IPK) in Havana, to make an update on the current situation of dengue and other arbovirosis.

Experts from Cienfuegos Environmental Studies Center (CEAC by its Spanish acronym) will present their experiences tomorrow at the Swiss scientific boat Race for Water Odyssey, anchored at the Sierra Maestra Cruise Terminal in Havana Bay.

Cuba closed the first six months of the current year with an infant mortality rate of 4.1 deaths per thousand live births, an indicator only comparable to some countries of the so-called First World

The Carlos J. Finlay School of Medicine has graduated 579 professionals among them doctors, dentists, nurses and health technicians in an activity dedicated to the leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro and the 37th anniversary of the institution celebrated last June 4th.

The University of Medical Sciences of Havana (UCMH by its Spanish acronym) will graduate tomorrow about 900 health professionals, including more than 80 foreigners incorporated into the project of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM by its Spanish acronym) and other government programs.