Cuba and China signed new accords to enhance bilateral cooperation in the biotechnology sector during the closing session, Thursday in Havana, of the 12th Meeting of the Joint Working Group on Biotechnology.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz congratulated today the staff of the Immunoassay Center on the 36th anniversary of its foundation and praised its contribution to the development of Cuban science, healthcare, and biopharmaceutical industry.

With the presence of Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, a meeting with experts and scientists was held on Monday to discuss the country's main health issues.

Over 11 thousand children between one and five years of age in this south-central Cuban province are being administered a homegrown candidate vaccine known as QuimiVio against the Pneumococci bacterium.

The 12 schools of the University of Medical Sciences of Havana (UCMH) will start the new school year with some 23,000 students.

Cuba will be represented at the 23rd Congress of Infectious Diseases, to be held on September 19 to 22 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, by Dr. Angel Arturo Escobedo Carbonell, a renowned 1st and 2nd Degree Specialist in Microbiology and Parasitology, who will give a lecture titled “Current knowledge in the treatment of intestinal parasites”.

A modern factory for the production of moringa powder for medicinal purposes was opened in this western province, in the presence of the member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz.

A multidisciplinary team of the Pediatric Hospital Octavio de la Concepcion y de la Pedraja in the province of Holguin (eastern Cuba) successfully removed a nut from the esophagus of a girl on Monday night.

I am the most recently identified diabetic child in the territory and in these days I learned new practices to move forward, said Oscar Luis Rodriguez Carmona during the closing of the second cycle of the provincial Summer Camp for children with diabetes in Matanzas(western Cuba).

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, mourned today the death at the age of 88 of PhD in Sciences Alfredo Ceballos Mesa, whom he described as an exceptional revolutionary, orthopedist and scientist.

Cuba’s Health Ministry acknowledged the Havana-based National Medical Genetics Center on its 20th year of work towards community-focused genetic development.

European brigades of solidarity with Cuba are helping the health system in the eastern Cuban province with the delivery of medicines and other health supplies to hospitals and primary health care areas.

César Endris Acosta Martínez, a graduate of this province’s Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE), won a bronze medal in the 55th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO 2023) held in Switzerland on July 16 to 25.

The Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center (CIGB) based in this eastern Cuban province is marking its 34th birthday with satisfactory production results this year and its first exports of its “PORVAC” vaccine, to fight classical swine fever or Hog Cholera.