Health & Medicine

Health & Medicine

Latin American Medicine Day, a deserved tribute

Cubaplus Magazine

Every December 3, Medicine Day is celebrated in Latin America to honor those professionals who give their best every day and even risk their lives to save their patients.

Cuba works on specific vaccines against Omicron coronavirus variant

CubaPLUS Magazine

BioCubaFarma President Eduardo Martinez on Wednesday informed that Cuban scientists are working on specific vaccines to fight the new coronavirus variant, named Omicron.

To think, to create, to save

The Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (CIDEM, in Spanish) is a closed-cycle company of the Group of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries of Cuba (BioCubaFarma). It has more than 25 years of experience in the Cuban biopharmaceutical sector

Ventipap, the route to technological independence

Although COVID-19 has been and continues to be a very harmful epidemiological factor for humanity for all its health, economic and social consequences, in some way it has some positive factors, since it has influenced the search for solutions to problems that might seem unsolvable.

UEB Pharmaceutical Supplies, assured guarantee and efficiency

Created just three years ago, UEB (Base Business Unit) Pharmaceutical Supplies, is an organization capable of efficiently receiving, handling, storing and distributing supplies for the national pharmaceutical industry.

Natural products for a healthy life

Maintaining healthy lifestyle habits is always recommended as the best way to have a healthy body and a healthy mind and, in Cuba, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNIC) is a standard bearer in this sense, since it has 30 years of experience in developing natural products.

An encounter with the essential

The National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology (INOR), with over 60 years of experience, has a high scientific standard and state-of-the-art technology for cancer care.

The sun giving health

The sun, along with the beaches, is among the things that tourists come to Cuba to enjoy. It is the sun, in fact, that lends its name to the clinics whose assistance is offered by the Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos S. A. (CSMC, S.A.), to visitors who want to improve their quality of life in the largest Antillean Island and to treat different health conditions.

Foreign tourists who wish may be vaccinated in Cuba

CubaPLUS Magazine

Starting next Monday, all foreign tourists who arrive in Cuba and wish to do so may be vaccinated against COVID-19 with the immunogens developed by scientists from the largest of the Antilles.

Final result of Cuban vaccine Sovereign 02 Cuba published

CubaPLUS Magazine

The final results of the study of the Cuban anti-Covid-19 vaccine, Soberana 02, showed an efficacy of 71 percent with two doses and when administering a third of Soberana Plus it reached 92.4 percent, transcended here.

Cuba: 40 million doses produced of Abdala vaccine

CubaPLUS Magazine

The production of the Cuban vaccine Abdala, to combat COVID-19, has already reached the figure of 40 million doses, thanks to the audacious decision to join efforts and resources of two BioCubaFarma companies, reported this Tuesday on its Twitter page the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB).

Cuba has a drug against Alzheimer's

Cubaplus Magazine

The Cuban Center for State Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices is evaluating for its registration a drug called NeuroEpo, an innovative product against Alzheimer's disease.

Cuba, first country to resume face-to-face teaching with all students vaccinated

By Mercy Ramos

When in November, minors between 2 and 18 years old complete their vaccination with the last dose of Soberana Plus, Cuba will be the first country in the world to resume face-to-face teaching with all its students vaccinated against COVID-19, said the Minister of Public Health of the island, José Ángel Portal Miranda.

Peace Prize of the Peoples awarded to Cuban Medical Contingent

Cubaplus Magazine

The International Contingent of Doctors Henry Reeve of Cuba received today the Peoples Peace Prize awarded by Uited States members of the campaign to give this group the Nobel Prize.

BioCen to request permission for clinical trial with Biomodulin T

Cubaplus

Cuba´s National Center for Biopreparations (BioCen) will present a file to obtain approval of a clinical trial with Biomodulin T for Covid-19 convalescent patients, a local source reported.