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Race Based Genome Project Launched By Mexico

Mexico has launched a race based genome project to determine if a genetic basis exists for its growing health crisis. The goal is to clean insights into genetic differences, believed to be unique// to its population, which may play a key role in chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes and hypertension. ..Applied Biosystems (ABI), IBM Health care and Affymetrix with assist the government in sequenc...

Mexico and US border attain a new outlook due to BiNational Sustainability Laboratory

The vice president of Sandia National Laboratories, Gerry Yonas was the first to visualize a need for laboratories in the Mexican border. ..This led to the development of the BiNational Sustainability Laboratory (BNSL), which extends over an area of 4000 square feet at Santa Teresa. This will mainly augment the border security force and deal with terrorism // with the help from Canada & Mexico...

Mexican candies with lead content banned

Department of Health Services would be banning Mexican candies with lead contents for sale in United States. Following reports of high levels of lead// in Mexican candies the Officials have banned the sale of Mexican brand of candies with high amount of lead. It is known that there are more than 100 brands of Mexican candies sold and the Government is planning to have stringent quality check tes...

New Mexico State Hospitals Information Website

New Mexico Hospitals and Health Systems Association has launched a hospital information website which helps the patients to look into the quality of treatment// offered by the hospital which would help them to take a decision of selecting the hospital for their treatment. ..There are 35 State hospitals in the state and the website provides information about the number of patients visiting the ho...

New Mexico Debates Over Forcing Mentally Ill People To Seek Treatment

The recent spate of killings by mentally ill people in the United States has revived the debate as to whether such people should be forced to seek treatment even if they have not committed any crime. Lawmakers in New Mexico are preparing// to argue about a bill that seeks to compel mentally ill people into seeking treatment for their condition. ..Gov. Bill Richardson has conveyed his support for...

Mexi-Plan by Health Net, Expected To Be a Boon for Uninsured Latinos

Latinos are perhaps waiting with bated breath to hear the announcement from Health Net of California regarding the state's first private insurance plans and what it has in store for those who wish to seek the assistance of doctors in Mexico or the United States. // ....The company has novel schemes on the anvil, whereby, medical benefits can be availed for as little as $75 a month, paid directly...

Mexico Ministry: No Bird Flu Infection Across US Border

Ministers belonging to the Mexico’s agricultural ministry have denied the presence of any bird flu infection across the U.S. border//. 'We are free of highly-pathogenic bird flu,' said Jose Angel del Valle, the ministry's animal health director. ....Rumors regarding bird flu infection were raised in the U.S. commodities markets, leading to a reduction in the grain prices. A Brazilian web site ha...

Crisis Of Bubonic Plague In New Mexico

A department spokesman, Deborah Busemeyer, says a man in critical condition was hospitalized due to septicemic form of the disease in which the plague bacteria multiply in the bloodstream//. Another women from Bernalillo County died last week from septicemic form of the plague and she was the first to die. ..Bite from an infected flies or direct contact with infected animals like rodents, wildli...

Recurrence Of Stroke More Common In Mexican American

Studies seem to indicate that recurrent strokes are more common among Mexican Americans. A study that has been published in the September 2006// issue of Annals of Neurology (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/ana), the official journal of the American Neurological Association has examined the recurrence of stroke in Mexican Americans (MAs) and found that they had a higher risk compared wi...

Legalization of Abortion in Mexico City Raises Heckles

The passing of the abortion bill by Mexico City has raised a few heckles country wide. The law maker passed the bill 46 to 19. It was proposed by the leftist party//. It will allow abortion by the women in the first three month of pregnancy. The law ensures that there will be free service to the poor and the uninsured. Abortion after 12 weeks will be punishable by law, with jail sentence up to si...

Wal-Mart Mexico Makes Shelf Space for Inexpensive Generic Drugs

Walmex, the popular retailer in Mexico has opened the channels to make available a line of 150 inexpensive generic drugs costing// as less as $3.50. This move has elevated the position of the shopping conglomerate as a great way to avail facilities under one roof. ....Last year, Walmex's parent company, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. led the way with a similar move of providing generic drugs for $4 per p...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

NIH's National Eye Institute is seeking to raise glaucoma awareness among Mexican-Americans,// who have a higher risk for the disease than others, the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch reports. ....Mexican-Americans over age 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all face a higher risk for the disease. Five percent of Hispanics have primary open-angle glaucoma, the most c...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

NIH's National Eye Institute is seeking to raise glaucoma awareness among Mexican-Americans, who have a higher risk for// the disease than others, the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch reports. ....Mexican-Americans over age 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all face a higher risk for the disease. Five percent of Hispanics have primary open-angle glaucoma, the most c...

Red Cross Promotes Prevention, Control of TB Along U.S. - Mexican Border

WASHINGTON, While the global health community and residents of several countries are concerned about news reports of the estimated 100 people who may have contracted tuberculosis (TB) from an infected airplane passenger recently, the American Red Cross has been working for two years along the U.S. and Mexican border to prevent the spread of this particularly infectious disease. ......At a confe...

Mexico Supreme Court Accepts Petition To Review Mexico City Law Legalizing Abortion During First Three Months' Gestation

The Mexico Supreme Court on Friday announced that it has accepted a petition, filed by the National Human Right's Commission, to review the constitutionality of a Mexico City law that allows pregnant women to obtain an abortion during the first three months' gestation, the Los Angeles Times reports. ......Lawmakers from the Party of the Democratic Revolution in March in the Mexico City Legislat...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

NIH's National Eye Institute is seeking to raise glaucoma awareness among Mexican-Americans, who have a higher risk for the disease than others, the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch reports. ......Mexican-Americans over age 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all face a higher risk for the disease. Five percent of Hispanics have primary open-angle glaucoma, the most...

Spicy Cuisine Originated in Mexico 1,500 Years Ago

The spicy Mexican cuisine, which is one of the world's tastiest and most popular, may be nearly 1,500 years old, say scientists at the Smithsonian Institution . ......Linda Perry of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History says that as early as 1,500 years ago, Pre-Columbian inhabitants of southern Mexico enjoyed a spicy fare similar to Mexican cuisine today. ......The new finding...