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A number of blood tests for Alzheimer's are being developed, and one is even now being sold to consumers, but none have been proven to be reliable, formally approved by regulators, or paid for by insurance companies.

SANTA MARÍA OSTUMA, El Salvador, Oct 10 (IPS) - The effects of El Niño on agriculture in Central America are once again putting pressure on thousands of small farmer families who are feeling more vulnerable economically and in terms of food, as they lose their crops, due to climate change.

A number of blood tests for Alzheimer's are being developed, and one is even now being sold to consumers, but none have been proven to be reliable, formally approved by regulators, or paid for by insurance companies.

The effects of El Niño on agriculture in Central America are once again putting pressure on thousands of small farmer families who are feeling more vulnerable economically and in terms of food, as th

Tributes have poured in for missionary Michael “Soy” Taylor, who died Oct. 2 in Guatemala after being shot at his home during a robbery attempt. A memorial service is planned for Oct. 12 in Grand Bay.

Guatemala City, Oct 4 (EFE).- Hundreds of Guatemalan farmers are blocking the country’s main highways for the third consecutive day on Wednesday to demand attorney general Consuelo Porras’s resignation for judicial intervention against the general elections’ results. The protesters have taken 14 highways, most located in the departments of Sololá, Quiché, Chimaltenango, and Quetzaltenango, northwest …

Agents of the Guatemala attorney general’s office open boxes holding votes during a raid on Supreme Electoral Tribunal facilities following the presidential election.

On the evening of August 20, election day for Guatemala’s second round of presidential voting, Alba Noe Muñoz’s family was afraid she would have a heart

Guatemalans guarded the memory of democracy through decades of war and corruption. With Bernardo Arévalo, they saw an opening.

The party of former first lady Sandra Torres, who lost Guatemala’s presidential election to Bernardo Arévalo, has filed a complaint alleging fraud in vote counting.