New regulations regarding the sale of antibiotics to the public will take effect nationwide on August 25.

The cesarean section birth rate in the state of Jalisco is sky-rocketing and showing no sign of levelling out.

By the end of this year, doctors at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in Jalisco will be holding dermatology consultations via the Internet, according to Maria Guadalupe Bravo, director of IMSS Regional Hospital 46.

Dengue fever will be the biggest health headache for state authorities in 2010, Jalisco Health Secretary Alfonso Petersen has predicted.