Health & Medicine

Health & Medicine

Smiles in Cuba and the Ukraine

By: Lucía Arboláez / Photos Panchi / Make up Pavel Marrero

“In these twenty years I have felt so many strong emotions that it feels as if I’ve spent my whole life here”, Esteban Gómez told us. Gómez is director of Villa Amistad (Friendship Villa), a medical-lodging complex at Tarara Beach, 15 km east of Havana.

Acitan Recognized

By: Liliam Lee Hernández

Among the many research lines of Cuban business group LABIOFAM, the nutritional supplement Acitan, has kept a team of scientists quite busy.

CIREN, where hope is restored

CIREN, Cuba's International Centre for Neurological Restoration, founded in February 1989, is a leading scientific and medical institution, offering innovative, successful therapy programs for neurological restoration and general biological restoration that have won recognition and benefited thousands of patients in some 85 countries.

CNIC, Towards the Development of New Natural Health Products

By: Alfredo Boada Mola

The Cuban National Center of Scientific Research (CNIC) develops new natural products for the treatment of a variety of illnesses, thereby improving the health and quality of life of the Cuban people. “In the last few years we have obtained excellent results in the development of natural products such as PPG (Policosanol), known to reduce cholesterol levels and recommended for people with diabetes and hypertension”, said Blanca Rosa Hung, CNIC's General Director, to Cubaplus.

Cochlear Implant, Farewell to Silence

By: Aloyma Ravelo / Photos: Miguel Gutiérrez

Cochlear implant technology has revolutionized the world of acute hearing disability. Thanks to this technique, previously hearing impaired children, young people and adults have achieved acceptable hearing, with a definite improvement in their quality of life.

Medical attention and health care in Cuba, Serving the World

The accomplishments of Cuba's health system, its scientific and technical achievements in biotechnology and medicine, and the professionalism and humanism of the country's doctors and all its healthcare personnel are the main reasons for growing interest in health-related travel to Cuba.

Special Education in Cuba, Equal Opportunity for All

By: Joel Michel Varona

Cuba can boast of tangible achievements in its special education system, which is designed to provide schooling fairly and with equal opportunities.

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.