Health & Medicine

Health & Medicine

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.

Emcomed, an important support to prevent COVID-19

CubaPLUS Magazine

The Medicines Marketing and Distribution Company (Emcomed), about to turn 16 years old, is currently an essential prop in the fight against COVID-19 in Cuba, as it is responsible for the distribution of vaccines, diagnosticians and all the drugs used to combat and prevent this terrible disease.

International healthcare services are ready in Cuba

Cubaplus Courtesy of Prensa Latina

Comercializadora de Servicios Medicos Cubanos' (CSMC) company is currently getting ready to attend new foreign patients, in view of the upcoming reopening of the country's borders.

Cuba increases production of Itolizumab against Covid-19

Prensa Latina

A production campaign of Itolizumab, a monoclonal antibody used as a treatment for serious Covid-19 cases was recently completed, informed today authorities of the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) of Cuba.

Cuba and Mexico created joint venture to finance clinical trials

Prensa Latina

Cuba and Mexico announced today the constitution of the joint venture IncuBio in the Mariel Special Development Zone, to attract capital and finance proof-of-concept clinical trials in developed country market.

Cuba can produce millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines

Cubaplus Courtesy of Prensa Latina

The Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) reported that it can produce 10 million doses of the Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus vaccines against Covid-19, local media reported on Saturday the local press reported today.

Cuba approves vaccine candidate against Covid-19 without thiomersal

Prensa Latina

Cuba's regulatory authority approved on Friday a vaccine candidate against Covid-19 that includes the antigens of Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus but without thiomersal.

Anti-Covid-19 vaccines fights off Delta variant

Cubaplus Courtesy of Prensa Latina

The anti-Covid-19 vaccines developed worldwide, including Cuba´s Abdala and Soberana 02 candidates, fight off Delta variant, which transmits a viral load 1,200 times greater than others, scientific authorities reported.

Cuba reports over 2.6 million people vaccinated against Covid-19

Prensa Latina

As many as 2,620,050 Cubans have already received the complete three-dose Covid-19 vaccination stage, by applying some Cuban-own vaccines, official sources reported.

CNEURO. The science of protection

CubaPLUS

A new medical supplies plant for the production of masks, nasopharyngeal swabs and applicators was inaugurated in the largest Antillean island as a result of the financing granted in two joint projects. The first was granted by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), through the PADIT platform (Coordinated Platform for Comprehensive Local Development) and the governments of Switzerland and Italy

EMCOMED, its development strategy

CubaPLUS

As part of its development strategy, the Medicines Marketing and Distribution Company (EMCOMED) is committed to increasing its logistics services marketing, encouraging business with the Cuban business system and investment with foreign capital.

Reynaldo Rivera, “El Rojo” re-emerged like a phoenix

BY MERCY RAMOS, PHOTOS: JOSÉ (TITO) MERIÑO AND COURTESY OF THE INTERVIEWEE

The world knows very well the legend of the phoenix rising from the ashes and that is the case of young Panamanian Reynaldo Rivera Staff, affectionately called “El Rojo” by those close to him, who managed to survive a terrible car accident eight and a half years ago, which gave him 19 brain injuries and nearly 20 days in a coma.