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Mexico's gay leader of AIDS efforts urges open discussion
Mexico City - As host country for the August 3-8 International AIDS Conference, Mexico's own country efforts will play a prominent role in widening the message of prevention to the entire Latin...
View ArticleHomophobia, prevention dominate AIDS conference in Mexico
Mexico City - Homophobia and disappointments in the search for a vaccine were expected to dominate the 17th International AIDS Conference as an estimated 25,000 scientists, politicians, physicians and...
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Homophobia, prevention dominate AIDS conference in Mexico
Mexico City - Homophobia and disappointments in the search for a vaccine were expected to dominate the 17th International AIDS Conference as an estimated 25,000 scientists, politicians, physicians and...
View ArticleFuneral procession to protest high cost of AIDS drugs
Mexico City - More than a hundred AIDS activists participated in a mock funeral procession Wednesday to protest against pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories' spiralling costs of the...
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Anbumani Ramadoss addresses 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico
Mexico, Aug 8 : India’s Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss has said that the key to overcoming the HIV epidemic is to take HIV services to those on the margins of...
View ArticleBlind therapists help Mexicans deal with stress
Mexico City, Jan 26 - A massage parlour in Mexico city has been providing residents its services for almost half a century - but with an all-blind therapist staff.The massage parlour's services are a...
View ArticleSecond hand clothes poses health hazards
Mexico City, July 21 : Wearing second hand clothes can expose people to health hazards."Such clothes can be infested with mites and lice, and can contain some kind of chemical and even bacteria," EFE...
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Mexican beauty rips pageant organisers over weight issue
Monterrey (Mexico), Aug 3 : Cynthia de la Vega, who finished second in a beauty contest that makes her eligible to represent her country at the 2011 Miss World pageant, said she was "in total...
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77 suffer food poisoning in Mexico
Mexico City, Dec 14 - Seventy-seven people fell ill in central Mexico after eating contaminated food, Xinhua reported.They ate the food at a party in El Porvenir town.Juan Antonio Muro, vice director...
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58 Mexicans die of flu
Mexico City, Feb 6 - A total of 58 people have died of flu in Mexico so far this year. The deaths were caused by different strains of flu virus, the predominant one being swine flu.As many as 2,815...
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Mexico makes vaccine against drug addiction
Mexico City, Feb 6 - A vaccine against heroin addiction that has been patented in Mexico will be ready for human use in around five years.Health Secretary Salomon Chertorivski said laboratory...
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Mexico ready for trials of vaccine against heroin
Mexico City, Feb 25 : Mexican scientists trying to develop a vaccine to prevent heroin addiction are almost ready to begin human clinical trials, a scientist said.Tests of the medication on animals...
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Teen mothers account for quarter of all births in Mexico
Mexico City, April 8 : Mothers aged 14-19 account for roughly 480,000, or 24 percent, of Mexico's 2 million annual births, authorities said.The figures were provided by Alejandro Rosas Solis, deputy...
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170 Mexican kids sick after having food at school
Mexico City, May 1 - About 170 children and six adults fell sick after having food at a party at an elementary school in the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco, authorities said.The children and...
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Mexico slaughters 3.8 mn chickens to stem bird-flu outbreak
Guadalajara (Mexico), July 19 - Around 3.8 million chickens have been slaughtered as part of the effort to contain a bird-flu outbreak in the western state of Jalisco, Mexico's food safety agency...
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Toxic fumes kill seven at Mexican brewery
Mexico City, April 8 - At least seven workers at one of Mexico's leading breweries died after accidentally inhaling toxic fumes, a company representative said.In a press release Sunday, Grupo Modelo...
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Mexican spirit gains popularity around the world
Mexico City, May 29 : Mezcal, an alcoholic beverage long considered too common to interest connoisseurs, has gained popularity in Mexico and around the world, challenging tequila, the country's best...
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World Bank pledges $150 mn for fight against Zika
Mexico City, Feb 19 - Thursday saw a new front opened in the battle against the Zika virus as the World Bank entered the fray, pledging $150 million for Latin America and the Caribbean to help fight...
View ArticleMexican NGOs launch anti-obesity campaign
Mexico City, July 4 - A coalition of civic groups is asking Mexicans to use social networks to condemn ads for junk food and sugary soft drinks that many blame for rampant childhood obesity in the...
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Say no to drinking on weekends
Mexico City, Jan 2 - You might want to give your weekend liquor craving a break! In a breakthrough study, scientists have shown alcohol consumption on weekends by those who are not addicts can damage...
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