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In Mexico, numerous laboratories are now offering a way to find out for sure -- DNA tests. http://www.physorg.com/news177920971.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:50:03 EST news177920971 Germany, Mexico and the United States have crafted some of the world's smartest policies for improving energy use, according to a study released on Thursday on the sidelines of the UN climate talks here. http://www.physorg.com/news176650364.html Technology Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:00:01 EST news176650364 (AP) -- Grappling with low supplies of swine flu vaccines, President Felipe Calderon persuaded drug makers this week to sell him 30 million doses, while 1,000 Mexicans lined up for an experimental vaccine they hope can speed up supplies. http://www.physorg.com/news175501895.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:10:01 EST news175501895 (AP) -- It was six months ago that scientists discovered an ominous new flu virus, touching off fears of a catastrophic global outbreak that could cause people to drop dead in the streets. Doomsday, of course, never came to pass. http://www.physorg.com/news174847205.html Medicine & Health Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:10:01 EST news174847205 (AP) -- Officials closed schools and readied emergency shelters as Tropical Storm Patricia neared Mexico's Los Cabos resorts on Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news174666221.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:40:01 EST news174666221 Critical illness from 2009 influenza A(H1N1) in Mexico occurred among young patients, was associated with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and shock, and had a fatality rate of about 40 percent, according to a study to appear in the November 4 issue of JAMA. This study is being published early online to coincide with its presentation at a meeting of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news174562247.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:10:01 EST news174562247 Tropical Storm Olaf wasn't given much of a chance when he was born, and he never did make it to hurricane strength before fizzling out late Saturday night. NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared imagery that clearly showed Olaf's clouds stretched eastward out over mainland Mexico, away from its center of circulation near Baja California. http://www.physorg.com/news173977393.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:50:06 EST news173977393 The anticipated sea-level rise associated with climate change, including increased storminess, over the next 100 years and the impact on the nation's low-lying coastal infrastructure is the focus of a new, interdisciplinary study led by geologists at The Florida State University. http://www.physorg.com/news173973967.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:20:01 EST news173973967 Complex interactions between the ocean and overlying atmosphere cause hurricanes to form, and also have a tremendous amount of influence on the path, intensity and duration of a hurricane or tropical weather event. As researchers develop new ways to better understand and predict the nature of individual storms, a largely unstudied phenomenon has caught the attention of scientists at LSU's Earth Scan Laboratory, or ESL. Cool water upwellings occurring within ocean cyclones following alongside and behind hurricanes are sometimes strong enough to reduce the strength of hurricanes as they cross paths. http://www.physorg.com/news173369507.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:12:39 EST news173369507 (PhysOrg.com) -- Female monarch butterflies in eastern North America have significantly declined over the past 30 years, a new study by a University of Georgia researcher reveals. http://www.physorg.com/news172944025.html Biology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:00:53 EST news172944025 (PhysOrg.com) -- The cultural divide that has existed between the U.S. and Mexico is slowly diminishing, research by a UT Dallas professor finds. http://www.physorg.com/news172920089.html Other Sciences Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:50:01 EST news172920089 Scientists in Pennsylvania report that boosting production of crops used to make biofuels could make a difficult task to shrink a vast, oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico more difficult. The zone, which reached the size of Massachusetts in 2008, forms in summer and threatens marine life and jobs in the region. Their study is scheduled for the Oct. 1 issue of ACS' semi-monthly journal Environmental Science & Technology. http://www.physorg.com/news172319226.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:50:13 EST news172319226 Tornadoes that occur from hurricanes moving inland from the Gulf Coast are increasing in frequency, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This increase seems to reflect the increase in size and frequency among large hurricanes that make landfall from the Gulf of Mexico. The findings can be found in Geophysical Research Letters online and in print in a future issue. http://www.physorg.com/news171623905.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:19:17 EST news171623905 NASA scientists Maury Estes and Mohammad Al-Hamdan have been seafaring in the Gulf of Mexico, and one of them grew a bit green around the gills. It's not surprising that a space agency scientist might have trouble getting his sea legs, but what was he doing out there in the surf to begin with? http://www.physorg.com/news170353865.html Space & Earth Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:00:01 EST news170353865 A Policy Forum published in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine argues that twenty-five years of health care reforms in Mexico have increased insurance coverage but have not resulted in greater efficiency and have not significantly reduced health inequities despite their costs in a country that has huge divisions between the rich and the poor. http://www.physorg.com/news169791624.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:50:01 EST news169791624 A new study released by Rice University in Houston finds that California newspapers located closer to the border of Mexico routinely provide a more negative slant on immigration in general news reporting and on their opinion pages than the state's newspapers located further away from the border. http://www.physorg.com/news167998400.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:30:02 EST news167998400 NOAA-supported scientists, led by Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), found the size of this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square miles. However the dead zone, which is usually limited to water just above the sea floor, was severe where it did occur, extending closer to the water surface then in most years. http://www.physorg.com/news167720984.html Space & Earth Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:10:13 EST news167720984 Mexico's first known swine flu case was a six-month-old baby girl in a northern part of the country who had no known contact with pig farms, the head of a laboratory studying the virus told AFP Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news167639698.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:10:01 EST news167639698 Some 89,921 people in 125 countries and territories have caught swine flu, with 382 having died since the outbreak was uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data released Friday showed. http://www.physorg.com/news165837982.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:07:16 EST news165837982 Without the process of domestication, humans would still be hunters and gatherers, and modern civilization would look very different. Fortunately, for all of us who do not relish the thought of spending our days searching for nuts and berries, early civilizations successfully cultivated many species of animals and plants found in their surroundings. Current studies of the domestication of various species provide a fascinating glimpse into the past. http://www.physorg.com/news164639448.html Biology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:11:27 EST news164639448 University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia and his colleagues say this year's Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" could be one of the largest on record, continuing a decades-long trend that threatens the health of a half-billion-dollar fishery. http://www.physorg.com/news164546116.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:18:29 EST news164546116 While Congress considers opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil-and-gas drilling, experts on ocean currents warn of a potential environmental nightmare that could reach the coast of South Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news164437988.html Space & Earth Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:13:31 EST news164437988 Rice University researchers today announced that the first field tests of "nanorust," the university's revolutionary, low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year in Guanajuato, Mexico. http://www.physorg.com/news162642319.html Nanotechnology Wed, 27 May 2009 11:26:02 EST news162642319 (AP) -- Mexico City lowered its swine flu alert level from yellow to green on Thursday, and the mayor said "we can relax" now that there have been no new infections for a week. http://www.physorg.com/news162183906.html Medicine & Health Fri, 22 May 2009 04:05:26 EST news162183906 (AP) -- NASA is waiting for a break in Florida's rainy weather so the space shuttle Atlantis can return home on schedule. http://www.physorg.com/news162183827.html Space & Earth Fri, 22 May 2009 04:04:06 EST news162183827 (AP) -- Gene Lopez has just finished planting his chile field in the same way he's planted his heat-packed crop for three decades. But as the years pass, there seems to be more immediacy behind each seed he places in the ground. http://www.physorg.com/news161243967.html Biology Mon, 11 May 2009 07:00:08 EST news161243967 (AP) -- A U.S. health official says now only about 10 percent of the Americans who got swine flu had traveled to Mexico and likely picked up the infection there. Most got the bug at home. http://www.physorg.com/news160926248.html Medicine & Health Thu, 07 May 2009 14:44:23 EST news160926248 The global outbreak of swine flu hovering just below the pandemic threshold could provide immunity for those already infected if the virus mutates into a more deadly form, scientists have told AFP. http://www.physorg.com/news160896138.html Medicine & Health Thu, 07 May 2009 06:22:46 EST news160896138 (AP) -- Mexican health officials say that testing of backlogged cases has increased the confirmed swine flu death toll from 31 to 42. That includes three new deaths in the past two days. http://www.physorg.com/news160824653.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 10:53:04 EST news160824653 (AP) -- Traffic is picking up again, cafes are reopening and cleanup crews are getting universities ready to resume classes. Mexico City has some of its customary bustle back, and the president promises life is returning to normal after a five-day shutdown to contain the spread of swine flu. http://www.physorg.com/news160723100.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 May 2009 06:18:47 EST news160723100