With the arrival in Cuba of some quantities of financed supplies, and other efforts, drugs in high demand by the population are now in production, confirmed Rita Maria Garcia, director of Operations and Technology of the Biocubafarma Business Group.

The Cuban product HeberFERON, developed by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB by its Spanish acronym), has shown encouraging results in the treatment of patients with diffuse, poor prognosis or progressive brain tumors, said a specialized source in Havana.

Zeljka Cvijanovic, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Cuban Health Minister Jose Angel Portal exchanged views on Tuesday about bilateral cooperation.

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan granted the Presidential Medal and Distinguished Humanitarian Service Order to Cuba’s Henry Reeve Medical Brigade, whose doctors assisted the Turkish people affected by last month’s earthquakes.

Eight years after the approval of the Cuban vaccine HeberNasvac, to treat chronic patients infected with hepatitis B virus, the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB by its Spanish acronym) continues its research with the immunogen in Japan and Bangladesh, where it has obtained encouraging results.

In Cuba, psychology is made for the people, hence it has always had the vocation to be in the front row, saying, doing, writing, said Jorge Enrique Torralbas Osle, president of the Cuban Society of Psychology (SCP by its Spanish acronym), in Havana.

The Vaccination Week in the Americas, which takes place April 22-29, aims to generate high levels of demand and acceptance of vaccines to protect the population, and in Cuba coincides with the second stage of the 62nd National Oral Polio Vaccination Campaign, to support the goal of eradicating that disease in the world.

The second stage of the 62nd National Oral Polio Vaccination Campaign will begin today throughout Cuba, for children who have received a dose in the first phase, developed between February 27 and March 4.

 Students and practitioners of Psychology and related sciences from more than 50 countries will attend the 9th Intercontinental Convention on Psychology HOMINIS 2023 to be held in this city on April 24 to 28.

A new group of Cuban health professionals will join the island's medical brigade present in Gambia for almost three decades, Cuban foreign ministry reported today.

Professor Jie Yang, vice director of the Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, will give a lecture on artificial intelligence medical diagnostics today in Havana.

Pinar del Rio(westernmost province) plans to apply the third dose of anti-COVID-19 booster to more than 300,000 people with the nationally produced Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus vaccines.

Elba Rosa Perez Montoya, Cuban minister of science, technology and environment (CITMA by its Spanish acronym), congratulated scientists and technologists on the occasion of the celebration of the World Day of Science and Technology.

The strengths of the Cuban cardiopediatric network and its contribution to fetal heart disease diagnosis were recognized in a meeting of specialists.