The Brazilian government announced the expansion of its health program with more doctors from other countries, particularly from Cuba, to work in another 424 remote areas of the country.

Cuban doctor Felix Baez, who overcame the Ebola virus, which he got in Sierra Leone, returned to that Western African nation to continue fighting the disease along his comrades with the Henry Reeve international medical brigade.

The upcoming Pedagogy 2015 Congress to take place January 26-30 in Havana, will include the forum entitled Latin America and Caribbean, a Peace Zone, which will focus on post-conflict education.

The occurrence of three perceptible earthquakes during the first days of the year with magnitudes ranging from 3 to 3.2 on the Richter scale are normal reports, according to the National Seismological Research Center (CENAIS by its Spanish acronym).

In 2014, Cuba maintained the figure achieved the previous year of 0.9 deaths due to congenital malformations per every 1,000 live births, which ratifies the country among those with the lowest infant mortality rate for this cause in the world, asserted on Wednesday an expert in this capital.

The Illinois-based Community College Bard is organizing an academic exchange trip to Cuba in mid February with the participation by the presidents of the Black Hawk and Carl Sandburg colleges.

The processing group of biomedical data at Oscar Lucero Moya University, in Holguin, is working to develop a software that facilitates the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of patients with hereditary ataxias.

Cuba implemented a National Ebola Prevention and Fighting Program against the introduction and spread of that virus in the country, which took the training of over 384 persons, according to Granma newspaper.

Cuba ended 2014 with an infant mortality rate of 4.2 percent per thousand live births, same figure achieved at the end of 2013 and so far the lowest in its history.

Cuban doctors at the Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara Cardiology Center in the central city of Santa Clara saved the life of a child suffering from congenital heart condition after administering a complex heart-lung combined surgery.

With the exchange of experiences between Cuban and foreign activists, the 6th Latin American Meeting of Developing Experiences in Environmental Popular Education, which will run until December 12th, began today in Pinar del Río.

Totally reestablished, Dr. Felix Baez, member of the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade, who contracted the Ebola fever virus during his mission in Sierra Leone, West Africa, arrived in Havana.

Richard J. Roberts, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1993) noted in this capital that Cuba was able to develop in a few years products that are exportable resources for the national economy.

The Business Group of Biopharmaceutical Laboratories (LABIOFAM by its Spanish acronym) has created biotech plants in various Cuban provinces, with the aim of reducing the use of chemical insecticides and pesticides in agriculture.