By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government’s top medical and health authority, the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), on Thursday, May 19, issued a maximum health alert against vaping and all other forms of tobacco consumption devices, such as hookahs and water pipes. In a press release issued Thursday afternoon, Cofepris, in collaboration with Mexico’s
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By KELIN DILLON Thanks to a new ruling by Mexico’s federal court, all children between the ages of 12 to 17 will be able to vaccinated against covid-19 with the vaccine approved by the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) for use in minors, Pfizer-BioNtech, going into effect on Thursday, Oct. 14. The order will adapt Mexico’s
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It is one of the biggest buzzwords in the beauty industry today: anti-aging. But Michael Myslabodski, general director of the F Cells medical laboratories in Mexico City’s upscale Interlomas neighborhood, says that, for the most part, products and treatments that claim to be “anti-aging” are in fact misrepresenting themselves. “Most aesthetic medicine treatments that are promoted as
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By KELIN DILLON Barely one full week after their reopening, 39 Mexican public schools once again temporarily shuttered their doors to in-person classes after a number of their student populations tested positive for covid-19, said Secretary of Public Education (SEP) Delfina Gómez on Tuesday, Sept. 7. A total of 88 schools throughout Mexico reported positive cases, representing .06 percent of
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By KELIN DILLON A qualified majority of Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) on Monday, June 28, ruled that there can be no absolute prohibition of marijuana for recreational use within the country, after taking just one hour and a half to deliberate on the issue, essentially legalizing cannabis in Mexico. The ruling struck down Articles 235 and 247 of the General
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By KELIN DILLON Batches of AstraZeneca’s vaccinations against covid-19 that were packaged in Mexico, made with active substances manufactured in Argentina, will be released this month, said Alejandro Svarch, head of the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris). “I have the high honor and pleasure to inform you that the first four batches of AstraZeneca vaccine meet Cofepris
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris) approved the emergency use of the vaccine Covaxin on Tuesday, March 6, making it the sixth vaccine to obtain approval for use to inoculate Mexico’s population against covid-19. Covaxin, which is manufactured in India by pharmaceutical company Bharat Biotech, “meets the quality, safety and efficacy requirements necessary to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Women March Nationwide From A and B to Y and Z, Mexican women will protest in Monday, March 8, International Women’s Day, against macho violence in the nation. Though in the past, much of the attention of previous demonstrations has been centered around the Mexico City main square Zócalo, this year the programming for the protests will
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico has started the process of vaccinating its vulnerable elderly population against covid-19, with all Mexican inhabitants above the age of 60 theoretically available to receive the vaccine as of Tuesday, Feb. 2. The new phase began the same day that the esteemed international medical journal The Lancet published a peer-reviewed analysis of trials of the Russian
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Russian Vaccínea The Mexican Public Health Secretariat on Monday, Jan. 25, published in the Official Gazette the ordinance outlining the purchase of covid-19 vaccines by private citizens, companies and state governments. No doubt, the announcement was rushed to the government’s newspaper spurred on by the announcement that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was buying 24 million
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