Science

Belarus will apply Cuban unique drug worldwide to heal diabetic foot Heberprot-P, according to an agreement signed here, highlighted the Belarusian media.»

The specialized and multidisciplinary healthcare provided to retinitis pigmentosa patients in Sancti Spiritus, central Cuba, has made it possible to reduce the development of this chronic degenerative disease.»

Before the World Trade Organization (WTO), Cuba denounced the damage the U.S. blockade has caused the island’s health sector, including blocking its ability to purchase medicines for its population.»

Over 2 300 cancer patients have been so far treated this year at Camilo Cienfuegos General Hospital’s chemotherapy room, in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus.»

Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, scientific adviser to the Cuban Council of State, received an honorary doctorate from Lomonosov University, in the Russian capital.»

The earthquake that shook the Pakistani province of Baluchistan on Monday was so intense that it created a small island off the country’s coast in the Indian Ocean.»

Cuba is working on the progressive elimination of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), a powerful greenhouse gas that is one of the substances most harmful to the atmosphere’s protective layer, says an expert on the issue.»

United States scientists have identified a compound that reverses Down syndrome in newly born mice.»

The exhaustive research shows encouraging results in Sancti Spiritus.»

Since the technology was launched in 2010 to date, more than 4700 samples were processed in the laboratory of the Camilo Cienfuegos Provincial General Hospital, where the only existing equipment in the central region is located.»