Experts and students from the School of Medicine warned on Monday in Havana on the harmful use in consuming marihuana on the occasion of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

The western province of Pinar del Rio, site of the main activity on the occasion of National Rebelliousness Day next July 26th, registered an infant mortality rate of 2 per one thousand live births in the first semester of this year.

A women from Ciego de Avila gave birth to triplets through a C section at the Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial Hospital.

The 7th Plenary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Las Tunas, recognized on Friday the progress of the health sector and analyzed the existing potential for the elimination of inefficiencies that prevent from offering better assistance to the population.

A specialized policlinic in the city of Ciego de Avila reopened on Tuesday with a service that includes modern technology thanks to an investment of over 7 million 800 thousand pesos in its first stage.

In Cuba almost 80 percent of children with leukemia have been cured of this type of cancer, the most common in childhood worldwide, said Dr. Sergio Machín, 2nd Degree specialist in Hematology.

Cuban and Iranian specialists and authorities held talks on Wednesday in Teheran aimed at determining the possibility and conditions in expanding bilateral cooperation in the medical-scientific field, reported Prensa Latina News Agency.

Specialists from all over the country will attend from today the 9th National Cataract Workshop, where they will show the experience and achievements of this surgery in Cuba, which results are comparable with those achieved by developed nations.

Cuba has increased its prevention campaign in the prevention of blindness started in 2010 due to cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, corneal clouding, refractive defect, macular degeneration due to age.

The Network of the Cuban National Seismology Service announced on Tuesday that three detectable earthquakes were registered in the town of Caimanera in the province of Guantanamo registering 3.6, 4.5 and 2.9 on the Richter scale during the early morning hours of April 25th.

A delegation of professionals from the University of Applied Sciences of Norway visited the University of Medical Sciences of Havana (UCMH) in order to develop research and joint academic cooperation, especially in Masters and PhDs.

Cuban and foreign experts will participate in the 6th International Conference on Giardia and Cryptosporidium, which will take place at Havana's Convention Center from April 26 to 28 of this year.

Scientists from Cuba and the US will exchange experiences on the use of stem cells in the treatment of multiple sclerosis during the second edition of an event on this subject, based in Havana on May 4 and 5.

Cuba has almost two thousand professionals specialized in Medical Emergencies in addition to an important number of nurses, health technicians and technologists.