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.

Eugenio Martínez Enríquez, General Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, thanked Paraguay today for a donation of seven tons of medical supplies for the Cuban health system.

The National Center for Biopreparations (BioCen) is carrying out a series of innovation projects that include research, development, production, storage, distribution and commercialization of several products of the entity to favor the increase of services and the satisfaction of their demands.

The 3rd International Congress on Neurodevelopment and Early Attention CINAT 2023 will be held from today until April 6, with the participation of experts from several Latin American countries, at the Plaza America Convention Center in this seaside resort city(western Cuba).

During a scientific convention held in this city, Dr. José Moya, representative of the World and Pan American Health Organizations (WHO/PAHO) in Cuba, urged the medical community to keep an eye on the COVID-19 Omicron variant, given its current upward trend in 85 countries and the fact that a high percentage of the world population remains unvaccinated against the new coronavirus.

Although Avian Influenza is under control in Cuba, ecotourism guides, veterinary doctors and conservationists keep on alert at the Salinas de Brito, one of the most important Cuban migration corridors, where no cases of the disease have thus far been reported.

Nearly 500 scientific and technological categories were approved in 2022 by the National Commission for specialization in advanced technologies, made up of 16 experts from Cuban centers, institutions, laboratories and companies.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concluded in this city, with good results, a five-day-long evaluation of Cuba’s contribution to human health-related areas by experts from the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) who examined information of the 2016-2022 period.

Matanzas is a province that with the actions carried out before Covid-19, those maintained during the pandemic and those resumed, can advance towards the elimination of Tuberculosis (TB), stressed today Lourdes Suarez Alvarez Suarez, head of the National Program for the Prevention, Control and Elimination of that disease in Cuba.