The Ebola virus came back to Africa almost a year of the last epidemic. The last Friday. The World Health Organization announced the existence of a new outbreak to the northeast zone of the Democratic Republic of Congo into a bordering region with the Central African Republic where there have been three people dead.

In its efforts to halt the advance of Alzheimers and improve the quality of life of people suffering from the disease, Cuba announced the launch of human clinical trials on the medication NeuroEpo.

The 2017 Hematology event is being carried out from May 8th through 12th at the local Convention Palace. The VIII Cuban Congress on Hematology includes the X Latin American Hematology event and the Immunology and the Transfusion Medicine one, the V International Workshop on Hemophilia and the III Workshop on Primary Immunodeficiency.

Cuba joined on Monday a week of 'Action against the Mosquito in the Americas' with a broad program of activities, focused on the elimination of breeding sites of the Aedes aegypti disease transmitting insect.

The National Center for Minimal Access Surgery (CNCMA by its Spanish acronym) first in Cuba of this branch of medicine, made more than 4,500 such surgical procedures in 2016, with very good results, announced the director of that institution.