On the third day of the 72nd World Health Assembly, Dr. Carissa Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), received the Minister of Public Health of Cuba, Dr. José Ángel Portal Miranda, and the delegation that accompanies him to this conclave that takes place in the Swiss city of Geneva until the next 28.

Renowned Cuban scientists Professor Manuel Romero and Doctor Jorge Fraga, director and deputy director, respectively, of the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine, are participating in the IV International Conference on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 23-25.

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) issued its World Cybersecurity Index at the end of 2018 where Cuba was ranked 81st in the world ranking, and is thus categorized among the countries with an average level of cyber security.

More than 300,000 patients from 26 countries have been benefited in the last 10 years with the Heberprot-P, the only product in the world for complex diabetic foot ulcers that shows remarkable results and avoids amputation in most cases.

Specialists in Medicine, Advocacy and Bioethics from Latin America, the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa are starting an update on encephalic death and consciousness disorders at the VIII International Symposium on the subject.

Cynthia Forde, Minister of People's Empowerment and Elderly Affairs of Barbados, evaluated with the Cuban Ambassador in that country, Francisco Fernández, the possibility of implementing an assistance project with Cuban experts to confront Alzheimer's disease, for which the office of the Pan American Health Organization for the Eastern Caribbean already has funding.

The Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center announced on Wednesday that the initial results of the first North American clinical study of the CIMAvax-EGF vaccine show that this immunotherapy developed in Cuba is safe, well tolerated and deserves further study.

The Minister of Public Health, José Ángel Portal, ratified Cuba's commitment to the Pan American Health Organization and its member states to guarantee universal access to health services and strengthen its system of health care.

Cuba joins the international campaign for World Alzheimer's Day, which is celebrated every September 21 to raise awareness about dementia and challenge the stigma.

Cuba is joining the continental Wellbeing Week celebrated in the Americas sponsored by the Pan American and World Health Organizations aimed at creating healthy communities for all.

Specialists from Cuba and other countries will be updated on Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery in an event that will open its doors this Wednesday at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, in this capital city.

In the last eight years, the Cuban vaccine against ticks in cattle, developed by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB by its Spanish acronym), has produced incomes for more than 20 million dollars to the country, said Dr. Mario Pablo Estrada.

Restoration and maintenance of health centers that benefit senior citizens in the province of Holguin are part of the priorities aimed at improving the quality of life of that sector of the population.

The province of Camaguey has increased the number of kidney transplants in children with a total of five with less than two years initiating that type of surgery.