Health & Medicine

Health & Medicine

Back to life, drug addiction treatment

Photos by: Servimed

Approximately three percent of the world population (some 185 million people) used drugs improperly in the past 12 months, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Some 13 million people made improper use of cocaine, while another 15 million used heroine, morphine and opium. The most commonly improperly used substance is cannabis (more than 150 million people consume it at least once a year), followed by amphetamine-like stimulants (with some 38 million consumers, eight million of whom used ecstasy).

Genix at LABIOFAM

By: Irisnexy Regueira Oliú

The Corporate Group LABIOFAM, currently enjoying great recognition for the skill of its specialists and quality of products for human and animal health, has been composed of seven producing companies, six in Cuba and one abroad, a service company, and two trading import-export companies: Labiofam S.A. Trading Company and Bio Asia. The Genix company now joins this esteemed list.

Effective Biological Rodenticide

It is important to keep rats and mice out of households and surrounding areas, as well as from orchards and farmlands to prevent transmission of disease and damage to crops and property. Biorat, the biological rodenticide developed by Cuba’s LABIOFAM group, has so successfully slowed the spread of disease and economic loss by rat plagues that its use has been extended to various regions of the world.

Healthcare in Cuba

By: Dominic Soave, Photos by Prensa Latina

Having written and published about medical advances in Cuba over the past five years, I have become knowledgeable about the health care system in Cuba. In Cuba, rather than waiting six months for a brief meeting, you can call your cardiologist or other specialist and he will come by your house at night to share a cup of coffee. Cuba has without argument the best national healthcare system in Latin America, and one of the best in the world. Cuban citizens do not have to pay for medical treatment. A great majority of the population are covered by the Family Doctor Program, whereby they have an easily accessible personal physician in their immediate neighborhood.

SERVIMED, the Gateway to Cuba's Health services

Servimed is the leading organization, with 25 years of experience, in international management of health care in Cuba for customers from all over the world. It has relations with health institutions, specialized travel agencies, and patient associations in different countries.

Restorers of Movement

By: Mercy Ramos / Photos by José (Tito) Meriño

When you see a dancer dancing, an acrobat leaping, an athlete running or simply a person walking, you seldom stop to think that behind those movements may be the hand of an orthopaedic surgeon or a rehabilitation specialist responsible for restoring the health of a person after an injury or accident.

Acitan Project Closer to Sustainability

Among the leading products of the Cuban Labiofam Group is a nutritional supplement made from the pseudostem of the banana plant, used as a complementary therapy in patients with oncological diseases.

Cuba Medical Services

By: Mercedes Ramos - Photos by José Tito Meriño

Located on the magnificent Tarara Beach, only a 15 minute ride from downtown Havana, the Tarara International Clinicis the place to go for those who need rehabilitation and qual ity of life treatments in a tranquil setting.

The Battle Against Pain

By Agnerys Sotolongo / Photos: Jorge Pérez and Prensa Latina

Pain is one of the more frequent reasons for visiting the doctor. It is such a common problem that many health institutions have created pain clinics that focus on the diagnosis and management of pain and offer special treatment to cure or at least ease chronic pain.

Together for a Labour of Love

By: Maylín Vidal / Photos by Manuel Muñoa

With almost two decades of experience as a therapeutic clown, Joan Barrington of Toronto recently shared some of the tools of the trade with members of the Cuban children's theatre troupe, La Colmenita.

Solid National Healthcare System, More and Better Services

Today, Cuba has great prestige in the field of Medical Sciences and steady development in health care. The implementation of groundbreaking treatments, the application of new techniques, and the training of highly professional staff is a testament to this. That said, Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, S.A. (SMC) offers a varied set of healthcare programs in Cuba. Cubaplus interviewed SMC President Ismael Castillo García on the prospects of such programs.

The Search for Antiretrovial Therapies and Vaccines against HIV / AIDS

Cuban researchers from different scientific institutions have been working together in the search for new antiretroviral therapies and vaccinations against HIV/AIDS, and with progress having already been made, the research teams have strong hopes of advancing their research.

CENESEX: For the Development of Sex Education

By: Vivian Collazo Montano

Cuban sex education experts have been waging a silent battle to defend the principle that sexuality is a vital part of the personality of all human beings and that its full development is essential for individual, interpersonal, and even social wellbeing.

A New Life Promise

By: Vivian Collazo Montano

Cuban scientists' success in the creation of a therapeutic vaccine called CimaVax-EGF, the world's first vaccine for lung cancer treatment, has broadened hopes of achieving healing, survival and social integration for patients suffering from malignant tumors.

The Foundations of the Cuban Health System

By: Juliett Morales García

Cuba has cultivated a large and resourceful network of physicians, nurses and health technicians; a network which is only made possible thanks to well-designed academic practices and the constant commitment of academic institutions and the government to the improvement of healthcare professionals in postgraduate courses. The healthcare system in Cuba is made up of 60 different specialties.