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Haiti: High blood pressure considered the leading cause of death

Published on: October 3, 2025
10:55

Port-au-Prince, Oct 3 (Prensa Latina) High blood pressure in Haiti is now the leading cause of death in the country, surpassing HIV, tuberculosis, and cardiovascular disease.

France faces fifteenth wave of Covid-19

Published on: October 2, 2025
09:47

Paris, Oct 2 (Prensa Latina) France is facing an increase in Covid-19-related cases, suggesting the country is being hit by its fifteenth wave of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the press reported.

Havana holds first Cuba-Tanzania workshop on Traditional Medicine

Published on: October 1, 2025
11:40

Havana, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) The Cuba-Tanzania workshop on traditional medicine, the first of its kind on the Caribbean island and accredited by the National Council of Scientific Societies of Health, will bring together specialists from both nations in this capital until tomorrow.

India expects to surpass pharmaceutical export figures this year

Published on: October 1, 2025
10:28

New Delhi, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) India expects its pharmaceutical exports, currently valued at nearly $27.8 billion, to exceed $30 billion by the end of this year, according to an official source.

Nicaragua launches national campaign against diabetes

Published on: October 1, 2025
10:15

Managua, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) The Government of Nicaragua, through the Health Ministry (MINSA) and in partnership with other state institutions, launches the national campaign "Without Diabetes" in the Masaya department.

Panama on alert for disease affecting domestic and wild birds

Published on: September 30, 2025
09:59

Panama City, Sept 30 (Prensa Latina) Panama's Ministry of Agricultural Development (MIDA) declared a zoosanitary alert due to the presence of infectious laryngotracheitis (ITL), a highly contagious respiratory disease that affects domestic and wild birds.

Cuba to vaccinate all nine-year-old girls against HPV

Published on: September 30, 2025
09:58

Havana, Sept 30 (Prensa Latina) Cuban pharmacist Dagmar Garcia listed the benefits of the upcoming vaccination campaign against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which will benefit all nine-year-old girls on this Caribbean island.

On World Heart Day awareness of cardiovascular diseases raises

Published on: September 29, 2025
11:07

Washington, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) In celebrating World Heart Day on Monday, experts seek to raise awareness about cardiovascular diseases, their prevention, control, and treatment.

High reproduction rate of sea turtles in northern Cuban cays

Published on: September 28, 2025
11:40

Ciego de Avila, Cuba, Sep 28 (Prensa Latina) The current reproductive stage of sea turtles is considered very active on Cayo Coco, one of the islets that make up the Jardines del Rey tourist destination, on the northern coast of this central Cuban province.

Cuban ophthalmologists visit Mission Miracle in Uruguay

Published on: September 27, 2025
14:26

Montevideo, Sep 27 (Prensa Latina) Saturdays are busy days for the Cuban medical brigade that provides services at Jose Marti eye hospital in Montevideo, which conducts screenings throughout Uruguay on the penultimate day of each week.

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