Public health

The Cuban government admits to over 70 daily deaths from cancer and blames the embargo for the lack of medication

A wall of trash at the foot of a crumbling building: that’s how filthy the Havana street Belascoaín is

CBS News documents from Havana the collapse of healthcare and electricity: doctors without medicine and power outages lasting almost all day

How long? Residents report accumulated garbage next to residential buildings in Holguín

Electrical overload causes fire in the hemodialysis room of the Bayamo hospital

Cárdenas Hospital without electricity: reports of transfer of intensive care patients to Matanzas

They deny a collapse at the pediatric hospital in Matanzas: "We are not in a moment of epidemic."

Filmmaker Juan Carlos Cremata: "In Cuba, they don’t care about the living, let alone the dead."

Health crisis: Illegal gold mining in Las Tunas is causing diseases related to mercury poisoning

Solidarity networks distribute free medicines in Havana amid shortages

Trash invades beach in Mayabeque: "How long are we going to normalize this?"

Cloudy water and diarrheal diseases raise alarms in Santiago de Cuba

Images from a dental clinic in Camagüey raise questions about the conditions of healthcare service

Three municipalities complicate the epidemiological situation in Las Tunas, and the fumigation is progressing with limitations

The DEA reviews the limits to control 7-OH and other opioids related to kratom

The Governor of Guantánamo draws attention to the mayor and the municipal services for the landfills and the neglect of the city

Research on corruption in Cuban healthcare wins the Roche 2026 Award for Written Journalism

Uruguay is now paying Cuban doctors directly

Uruguay breaks away from Havana's model: Cuban doctors will receive their salaries directly, asserts the minister

Luis Estévez, the street in Santos Suárez where a river of sewage flows

Real or AI? Images of a man covered in mosquitoes in Batabanó raise doubts and alarm

Florida records fifth death from rare "flesh-eating" bacteria in 2026

Dutch Foundation sends 11 containers to alleviate shortages in health and education in Holguín

Where was the SIUM? Eight hours waiting for an ambulance, and an elderly person died after arriving at the hospital in Isla de la Juventud

Santiago de Cuba Hospital boasts of "resilience" while cooking with firewood for its patients

Alert in Matanzas due to increase in respiratory illnesses

Thousands of migrants in Florida may lose Medicaid starting October 1: who is at risk?

Authorities report two fatalities due to nitroglycerin poisoning in Holguín; one person in critical condition

Thousands of immigrants will lose Medicaid in Illinois: Cubans are among those exempted

Cuba: the tragedy of Aniari Barrientos and the collapse of the health system

They were selling water with coloring and thickener as if it were oil in Granma

Firefighters prevent sterilization equipment from catching fire at the América Arias Maternal Hospital

A 10-month-old baby who suffered from dengue has died in Santiago de Cuba

Cuban Ministry of Health acknowledges increase in infectious diseases and links it to the water and sanitation crisis

First percutaneous nephrolithotomy in pediatric hospital of Pinar del Río

No electricity for sterilization, administering aerosols, or taking X-rays: Critical situation reported at a polyclinic in Havana

"It is sad to see this in Cuba with so many illnesses": people rummaging through the trash in Havana

Dengue strikes three municipalities in Santiago de Cuba as cases of fever increase

Minsap acknowledges an increase in dengue, diarrhea, and respiratory illnesses amid public health issues

The number of fatalities in Florida and Louisiana due to the flesh-eating bacteria is rising

OPS brings tests and materials to Holguín to contain syphilis among pregnant women and adolescents

Holguín is tackling outbreaks of Aedes aegypti with 50 fumigation equipment units donated by the PAHO

She was born at just 26 weeks, fought for 138 days, and Aurora is finally home in Holguín

Uruguay seeks to pay Cuban doctors directly

66 years later, the CDR continues to ask for blood: The story behind "voluntary donations" in Cuba

Cubana issues an SOS for San Miguel de los Baños and reports more than a month without electricity or communications

New details about the 17 Haitians found on the shores of Santiago de Cuba

More than 167,000 pounds of meat produced without federal inspection and bearing a forged seal have been removed from the market in the U.S.

"The medical power has gone down the drain": Cuban doctor reports nightmare in caring for her baby

Family sues Publix after woman dies from eating blueberries contaminated with E. coli

This is how an elderly woman is moved due to a lack of wheelchair at the Amalia Simoni Hospital in Camagüey

Police operation in Matanzas uncovers alleged hoarding of highly sought-after medications

Food product withdrawn from Walmart due to possible listeria contamination: Do you have it in your freezer?

The Guantanamo municipality of Manuel Tames is on alert due to fever cases and the proliferation of micro-dumps

Medical discharge given to Cubans with food poisoning in Matanzas

"Here we have it": official press in Guantánamo boasts of a maternal home while the province registers a critical infant mortality rate

Only 15% of residents in Matanzas without water benefit from new infrastructure restored by linemen in Matanzas

The first mRNA-based flu vaccine has arrived at pharmacies in the U.S.: Who can receive it?

A Cuban woman erupts as she is unable to vaccinate her granddaughter: "If the clinic were privately owned, this would have been resolved by now."

Díaz-Canel tours the William Soler Pediatric Cardiocenter, and Cubans ask: "What do these visits achieve?"