Cuba will hold the First International Congress on Esthetics, Cosmetology and Esthetics Medicine to be held from July 1st to the 3rd in Havana aimed at preventing damages to health that can arise from the lack of professional training.

The eleventh imported case of a patient with Zika virus has been confirmed. It's a 43-year-old Cuban citizen, who lives in the municipality of Minas de Matahambre in western Pinar del Rio province and arrived in the country on April 30 from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, where she was working in the cultural sector.

The Washington-based Lung Cancer Alliance welcomed reports that a Cuban lung cancer vaccine will soon be tested in the United States through the work of the Roswell Park Institute. According to international media the therapeutic vaccine known as Cimavax will soon enter the US and may benefit American cancer patients.

The tenth imported case of a patient with Zika virus has been diagnosed, reads a note by the Cuban Public Health Ministry, the Granma newspaper reported on Friday.

The ninth imported case of a patient with Zika virus has been diagnosed, corresponding to a Cuban citizen living in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a native of the municipality of Cotorro, Havana province, who arrived in the country on April 8.

Some 70 experts from the United States will take part in the 7th Iberian-American Congress on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging, which will take place on April 14-16 in this capital.

More than 220,000 patients in 30 countries benefit from the use of the Cuban medicine Heberprot-P, unique of its kind and marketed by Cuba, which reduces the rate of diabetic foot amputation.

The representative of the United Nations Development Program praised on Thursday Cuba´s work in the prevention of HIV-AIDS.

Myrta Kaulard, representative to Cuba of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), praised on Thursday the work of the Caribbean nation in the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)/ HIV/AIDS.

Water tanks without covers, accumulation of wastes among others are the main reasons why 27 work centers in the province of Villa Clara have received huge fines amidst the current special campaign against the AedesEgypti mosquito.

The revival of scientific-productive poles of the country is a contribution to national socio-economic development, said in this city Miguel Diaz-Canel, first vice president of the council of State and Ministers.

It was diagnosed the seventh imported case of patient confirmed with Zika virus, corresponding to 36 years old Cuban collaborator, Comprehensive General Medicine specialist (MGI in Spanish), who arrived in the country from Brazil on March 22, and resident of No. 304 of B Street, between Calixto Garcia and Los Maceos in the city of Guantanamo.

From 26 February 1962 to date Cuba has administered almost 85 million doses of anti-polio vaccine, which confirms the country as the first in Latin America to eradicate the dreaded childhood disease.

Cuba has applied almost 85 million doses of anti-polio vaccine since February 26 th, 1962 ratifying the island as the first country in Latin America to eradicate the disease.