The president of the U.S. company Regenestem, Ricardo de Cubas, praised on Thursday in this capital the history of Cuban medicine and the results of Regenerative Medicine, in spite of limited resources.

The Cuban government decided to send a medical brigade to Haiti, taking into account the dire affectations caused by Hurricane Matthew that hit the Caribbean nation last October 4.

With 165-kilometer-per hour sustained winds and higher gusts, Matthews became a category two hurricane overnight and continues to intensify as it moves on Caribbean waters.

A communiqué issued by the Cuban Ministry of Public Health points out that since 2013, at the request of the government of President Dilma Rousseff and with the participation of the Pan-American Health Organization, Cuba joined the "More Doctors" program.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba´s first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, presided over the inauguration of the Cuban Sports Research Center.

The office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Cuba and the World Fund for Nature Conservation (WWF-Holland) signed on Tuesday in this capital a memorandum of understanding to support Cuba in that sphere.

The Henry Reeve International Contingent of Physicians Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics has saved more than 80,000 lives in about twenty countries where more than 7.000 Cuban voluntary workers have offered their services.

Cuban Public Health Deputy Minister Marcia Cobas began on Friday a three-day working visit to Angola, where she will assess the state of the implementation of the General Agreement on Cooperation between the two countries in different sectors, Prensa Latina reported.

A national meeting of Cuban biotechnology specialists working in the extension to the population of treatments with Heberprot-P®, drug used with remarkable results in diabetic foot ulcers, will take place today and tomorrow in this city.

The government of Saudi Arabia acknowledged on Wednesday the high professionalism of Cuban doctors and appreciated the work of 224 Cuban health specialists in that nation.

Professionals from the National Research Institute of Tropical Viandas (INIVIT by its Spanish acronym) created varieties of cassava, sweet potato, yams and banana genetically engineered to withstand climatic variations.

Cuba´s primary health system has assisted a growing number of citizens this year, who have come to health centers for alternative and traditional medicine techniques and products.

The Havana-based Medical University graduated 908 new health professionals, 784 Cubans and 124 from other nationalities in six medical courses.

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health has informed about three new cases of patients with imported Zika virus, for a total of 25 on the island so far, according to the daily Granma newspaper.