By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) General Director Zoé Robledo announced that Mexico would be hiring 749 international medical specialists to come and work in rural areas of the country, Robledo revealed during a press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 8., that each of these contracted specialists will be paid 53,569
Read more
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Cardiovascular disease is a silent killer that can strike nearly anyone at any time. And it does. According to the Mexican Association of Cerebral Vascular Diseases (Amevasc), stroke and other cardiovascular diseases constitute the number one cause of death nationwide, accounting for roughly100,000 fatalities each year. “About 30 percent of all stroke victims will die from the
Read more
PULSE NEWS MEXICO A 48-year-old tourist from Dallas, Texas, who was visiting the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, was confirmed on Tuesday, June 7, to have contracted monkeypox. The man, who presented at a Puerto Vallarta hospital with pustule-like lesions on May 30, allegedly fled the hospital early Friday, June 3, after doctors informed him that he could
Read more
By KELIN DILLON Heavy storms across the central states of Mexico on the evening of Monday, Sept. 6, caused massive floods throughout the region, resulting in the deaths of 17 hospital patients and widespread damage. In Hidalgo, the state north of Mexico City, a hospital run by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), reported water levels up to a
Read more
By KELIN DILLON After testing positive for covid-19, former Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada, who was in office from 2000 to 2006, and his wife Martha Sahagún were hospitalized on Saturday, Aug. 7, to treat the illness. Both Fox and his wife are reportedly stable with no serious symptoms. The former first couple of Mexico had already completed their full
Read more
By KELIN DILLON Reports coming from the Mexican state of Jalisco say that infamous drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho,” has built his own hospital in the region in an unusual gesture of goodwill for the increasingly violent crime boss, and also in an apparent attempt to help combat the kidney disease he apparently suffers from.
Read more
By KELIN DILLON Starting on Tuesday, Jan. 26, all travelers (age 2 and above) entering the United States by air will be required to show coronavirus test results taken within three days of the flight before boarding. Travelers to Canada also have to present a negative covid test to the airline prior to boarding, though Canada’s restrictions apply to those
Read more