The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.
As the hot season intensifies, dehydration can become an issue for some people, especially those who are not used to doing exercise under a blazing sun. Here are some tips from Katherine Tallmadge of the Live Science website.
A husband and wife entrepreneur team has partnered with a local doctor and is working on launching a medical tourism business focused on the area around Lake Chapala and Guadalajara.
After suffering burnout from pursuing a political science career in Sweden, a young Swedish transplant to Guadalajara, Kadri Jukham, has found her passion in Kundalini yoga and a related Internet health consulting effort — and compassion in rescuing street dogs.
Surveys carried out by the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS) in recent years show that around 80 percent of those covered in the national health-care program are satisfied with the service and treatment they receive.
All children aged under five may be taken to Health Secretariat clinics (Unidades de Salud) for important vaccinations during Mexico’s First National Health Week (Primera Semana Nacional de Salud) of 2012, scheduled February 25 to March 2. The free shots guard against polio, tuberculosis, rotavirus, hepatitis B and measles, among other diseases. For more information visit www.censia.salud.gob.mx.
