Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Cuba and in the region of the Americas, and its diagnosis changes the lives of those who suffer from it, especially at an early age. Therefore, to raise awareness about the challenges faced by these children and adolescents and their families, every February 15 is commemorated as International Children's Cancer Day.

Cuba studied 18,561 samples for COVID-19, resulting in 823 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,106,593 samples taken and 36,595 positive.

The workers of the Provincial Laboratory of Technical Orthopedics of Camaguey (eastern region) reverse with their daily actions the limitations of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba, with the aim of offering a better quality of life to the patients.

Although the factors leading COVID-19 patients to a severe stage are still uncertain, hospitals have observed that age is a predisposing factor in adults over 65 years old and found that their level of mobility and comorbidities also have an impact.

Cuban President Stresses Advancement of Cuban COVID-19 Vaccinesavana, Feb 10 (ACN) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel stressed the advancement of clinical trials of the four Cuban candidate vaccines against COVID 19.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) highlighted Cuba science’s ability to develop four anti-COVID-19 vaccine candidates, among them Soberana 02, soon to enter Phase III trials and bound to be the first Latin American vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The ingenuity and will of good health professionals reflect on every service of the Maria Curie Oncology Hospital in this city, amid the increasing restrictions of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade on Cuba and the current COVID-19 pandemic.

 The Cuban biotechnological and pharmaceutical industry company ( Biocen) has the capacity for the large-scale production of anti-COVID-19 vaccines.

Cuban Nephrology Institute Doctor Abelardo Buch Lopez, in Havana, is carrying out 32 research projects aimed at branches of the specialty such as chronic kidney disease, dialysis, transplantation, clinical nephrology and pathology.

 The Center for Industrial Biotechnology ( CEBI), of the University of Oriente in Santiago de Cuba(esatern country), is leading modern biotechnological research in Cuba aimed at the use of microorganisms and biomolecules for the sustainable development of agriculture, health, food production, industry and the protection of the environment.

Cuba studied 19,322 samples for COVID-19, resulting in 580 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,049,708 samples taken and 34,064 positive ones.

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 9 (ACN) Starting February 15, an epidemiological monitoring system developed by the company Datys will be implemented in the Cuban capital to make results of PCR tests available in the shortest possible time.

Cuba studied 18,981 samples for COVID-19, resulting in 653 positive ones. The country accumulates 2,030,386 samples tested and 33,484 positive.

Senior personalities of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts reported today that they sent a document to the Norwegian Nobel Committee with detailed arguments in support of the nomination of Cuba's Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.