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.

A debate is raging as to the effectiveness of anti-dengue bracelets that are being sold at stands around the city.

Some 60 expatriate residents of Ajijic, Chapala and Jocotepec had the chance to learn all about the Centro Medico Puerta de Hierro Sur at an open house held last weekend at the recently opened facility located on Avenidas Lopez Mateos Sur in Guadalajara.