The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Mexico’s Federal Commission against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) has issued a black list of illegal “stem cell” products that are being marketed as helping with many degenerative conditions, as well as for anti-ageing.
Ajijic ophthalmic surgeon and retina specialist Dr. Rigoberto Rios is in the midst of examining the eyes of Lakeside children who live in special circumstances. All but one of the seven Hope House boys checked on Friday, August 29 passed the exam with flying colors. The last, 13-year-old Ricardo, was diagnosed with Polar Posterior Cataract. Dr. Rios has promised to perform the eye surgery free of charge. The San Juan Cosala Pathways students were recently screened.
“Someday all this pain will make sense to you,” says the enormous wall sign painted over my head as I go through my thrice-weekly workout at my local CrossFit gym.
In a recent interview Chapala attorney Spencer McMullen offered advice on how area residents can plan avoid insurance and hospital payment problems by carefully planning for an eventual illness or hospitalization.
A recent discussion reinforced the wisdom of an old adage, “Learning about living in Mexico is like peeling an onion. Just when you think you are done, you realize there’s another layer.”
These last few weeks of the dry season seem to attract far more scorpions than normal into the open, where they can be seen.
Love them or hate them, spiders are the largest group of venomous animals. The worldwide spider catalog of the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory lists 40,024 different identified spider species.
