On May 23, Tuesday, Cuba marked the 60th anniversary of its global health assistance initiative, a program that has extended its solidarity to countries worldwide. This initiative officially commenced on the same date in 1963, when Cuba dispatched its inaugural medical brigade to Algeria, freshly freed from French rule, as France had withdrawn its medical...
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If you’re looking to study medicine in Cuba, you have come to the right place. Cuba has a world-renowned medical education system that has trained thousands of doctors who now work in countries around the globe. In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of studying medicine in Cuba, the admission requirements, and what you can...
I had read about the pediatrician who was part of the brigade of 32 healthcare professionals who traveled to Turkey on February 11th to provide medical assistance to those affected by the violent earthquake that struck that country and Syria earlier that month. It was not difficult to identify her among her companions, not only...
Diabetes insipidus occurs as a result of vasopressin deficiency (antidiuretic hormone caused by a hypothalamic-pituitary disorder, which is known as central diabetes insipidus) or by resistance of the kidneys to vasopressin (nephrogenic diabetes insipidus). The disease is primarily characterized by polyuria (abundant urine excretion) and polydipsia (pathological need to drink water) and is confirmed by...
Surgical myocardial revascularization is the most frequent cardiac intervention and one of the greatest achievements in surgery. It consists of bypassing the blood flow through native coronary arteries with high-grade stenosis or occlusion that cannot be solved by angioplasty with the introduction of an endovascular prosthesis. Cardiovascular diseases can manifest itself in many forms: high...
[bt_drop_cap type=”1/2/3″]C[/bt_drop_cap]uba has a highly developed health care system, which can be compared to those of more industrialized countries. The Cuban health care system has many new and unique features. It is funded by the Revolutionary State and is based on the needs of the population rather than on financial solvency ratios. Medical and dental...
Lung carcinoma is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. In lung cancer, the healthy cell that becomes the tumor cell is in the epithelium lining the entire respiratory tree from the trachea to the thinnest terminal bronchiole. Symptoms may include cough, chest discomfort or pain, weight loss and less frequently hemoptysis (coughing up blood)....
A hallucination is a false perception in the absence of a related sensory stimulus. Auditory hallucinations are a subjective, transient and extraordinarily varied mental phenomenon. In a simpler definition, it is a perception without object, where the patient perceives sounds without any real auditory stimulus. Auditory hallucinations do not constitute a disease in themselves, as...
Public Health Improvement: Strengthening Egyptian-Cuban Relations CAIRO – 18 April 2022: Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, as well as Acting Health Minister, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, commended the depth and strength of Egyptian-Cuban relations. Recognizing the importance of collaboration, he emphasized the need to enhance cooperation between Egypt and Cuba in the fields of...
Cuba’s local but efficacious approach to COVID-19 vaccine development is laudable. Cuba has adopted intense production and deployments of country-made vaccines while other Latin American countries look up to foreign aids in containing the pandemic. Vaccine production in Cuba has helped the island nation cater for mass vaccination of Cubans without breaking the national budget...