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Sex Is The Glue in Your Relationship

Want to know what your secret weapon is in creating the life you want? The absolute, most very best creative tool you have at your disposal is your intimate relationship. This is the place you create absolute magic. But it takes a...

Our “Physiological Reserves” Allows Us to Better Face COVID-19

Much is said about the sanitary contingency measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, such as social distancing, wearing a mask in public places, and maintaining social bubbles

COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens Progress in Combating Child and Adolescent Pregnancies, Experts Warn

During 2019, in Costa Rica, some 264 girls aged 14 and under became mothers. Although it is a difficult problem to combat, the country was already showing progress compared to two decades ago when there were 611 child pregnancies per year

Horse Plasma Treatment Against COVID-19 Enters Final Stages and Would be Ready in a Month

After receiving immunizations for two months, the horses donated to the Clodomiro Picado Institute (ICP) produced their maximum load of antibodies against the Novel Coronavirus, which now leads to the serum extraction

As In All Countries around the World, Costa Rica Also Has Its Share of Pandemic Deniers

A group of citizens demonstrated outside the Presidential House, they assure that the COVID-19 Pandemic is a hoax and that it is all a government conspiracy, even though several of them wore masks. The protesters made live broadcasts from a...

Liberia Hospital is the First at the Regional Level to Perform a C-section on a Patient with COVID-19

The “Enrique Baltodano Briceño Hospital” became the first regional medical center to perform a cesarean section on a woman positive for COVID-19. The procedure was carried out by Dr. Luis Villegas Araya, to a 26-year-old woman from Cañas. The...

Costa Rica Escalates to 8,036 COVID-19 Infections After an Increase of 440 in 24 hours

The country started the week with one more death from the Pandemic as well as a jump of 440 cases of COVID-19 in one day, to reach a total of 8,036. The report of the Ministry of Health indicates...

More than 8,000 Citizens Have Signed-Up for Blood Donations Since a National Urgent Request Was Made Last Week

The National Blood Bank had already received more than 8,000 requests to schedule appointments for donations, after a call was made last week, in conjunction with the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) due to the risk of shortages...

Citizens Present Lawsuit against Mandatory Use of Masks

The provision by the Ministry of Health to compel people to use face masks in shops and public transport when social distancing is not possible has not been well received by a certain sector of the population. For this reason,...

Complete Guidelines for the Application of Epidemiological Barrier throughout the Greater Metropolitan Areas (GAM) as Issued by the Authorities

Total vehicle restriction and total closure of non-essential establishments for five days, from Monday, July 13 to Friday, July 17, apply to all cantons on an orange alert, both inside and outside the GAM. On weekends (July Saturday 11 and...
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Laboratorio Echandi Achieves First Specialized & Study Laboratory Accreditation in Costa Rica

The Milestone: Laboratorio Echandi’s Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Department has been accredited under the INTE/ISO 15189:2023 standard, making it the...