By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican onion exporters took a big hit when the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning on Wednesday, Oct. 20, saying that fresh whole red, white and yellow onions from the northern state of Chihuahua were responsible for a salmonella outbreak that has impacted 37 U.S. states and sickened at least 600 people
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela could be the first high-level employee in the current leftist administration to be given a judicial order of dismissal, not just for ignoring a federal judicial order, but also for signing into law an official strategy that does not even come under his jurisdiction, that is the de
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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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Mexico Has Gone Green, but I Still See Red
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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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Unrequited Love
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco) Director Ricardo Sheffield on Wednesday, Sept. 29, put the nation’s private hospitals on notice, warning that many are overcharging insured patients and applying price increases far above the inflation rate. “The insurance companies, with whom we also spoke, are also reporting information on the relationship they have with
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Outrage over AMLO’s Flood Relief Program
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Tug-of-War
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A total of 1.75 million additional doses of the Moderna vaccine donated by the United States arrived Mexico’s Toluca airport, just outside Mexico City, on Tuesday, Sept. 21, the U.S. Embassy reported. The delivery completed the 3.5 million Moderna vaccines donated to Mexico, part of the 7.57 million vaccines that the United States has
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