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Health Secretariat Walks Back Decision to Suspend Infant Screening (But Hospitals Say They Don’t Have Tests)

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF     After a barrage of media reports and a flood of public condemnation, Mexican Health Secretary (SSA) Jorge Alcocer Varela on Saturday, March 30, seemed to walk back (at least in words, if not in practice) a decision one day earlier to suspend neonatal testing at public hospitals across the country. In a SSA statement

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Mexican Government Suspends Crucial Newborn Testing

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF     So-called populist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may be ready to plow up to 107 billion pesos in life support for the desperately moribund state-run oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex, which with financial obligations of more than $106 billion, is the world’s most-indebted oil company), but he doesn’t seem to have the

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