Zumba is now increasing in popularity. Beto Perez, the founder of this dance-exercise, says that the reason why people embraced it is because it’s “different, effective, infectious and easy-to-follow.”
A team of Mexican researchers is ready to start clinical trials on a vaccine to prevent the recurrence of different types of cancer. The experiment will be conducted in different cities in Mexico with the top cancer institution in the country and Latin America, National Oncology Institute, organizing the project.
Sanofi announced on Monday that Brazil has given its regulatory approval for their dengue fever vaccine called Dengvaxia®. Brazil became the third country in the world after Mexico and the Philippines to allow the use of the first-ever licensed vaccine for the prevention of the mosquito-borne disease.
Andres Moreno died of heart attack but doctors revealed it is unrelated to his weight loss surgery. The 38-year-old Mexican Andres Moreno made the headlines as it was reported that the world's most obese man finally passed away at a young age.
Calm. Cool. Collected. Plastic surgeon Sergio Alavarez counts on all of these qualities in the operating room. As a celebrity plastic surgeon, Alvarez knew early on he wanted to be in the operating room. His cardiologist father took him to see patients while still in elementary school.
More than 8.25 million consumers have utilized the Healthcare.gov federal health insurance marketplace. One cause for the increased enrollment or renewals spike is millennials.
A new study emerged which provided evidence that putting smoking warning labels that contains graphic and morbid images of the damage being caused by smoking has a greater impact in making the person quit tobacco consumption.
A bacteria stain was found in U.K. that is antibiotic resistant. An alarming bacteria strain which could resist colistin (which is the most common antibiotic of last resort) has been discovered in the U.
New blood test can decrease the chances of ovarian cancer. Just last Thursday, Fox News reported that a study which was published in The Lancet focused on 200,000 post-menopausal women within the ages of 50 to 74 for a span of 14 years.
Milk from sleepy cows provides better health benefits in terms of insomnia and anxiety. Drinking a glass of warm milk is known to induce sleep. But a report which was released by Fox News stated that milk collected from "sleepy cows" are better in terms of inducing sleepiness as it has calming effects.
The cholesterol health of Latinos, and in particular of Mexican-Americans, was the basis of a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
National Influenza Vaccination Week, observed December 6-12, 2015, is a week dedicated to highlighting the importance of vaccination coverage, and the high risk of serious flu complications faced by pregnant women, the elderly, young children and individuals with chronic health conditions.
Nationally, HIV diagnoses declined nearly 20 percent, although progress has been uneven. Diagnoses among Latina women and white women declined steadily over the past decade (35 percent and 30 percent, respectively). Although, there have been increases among HIV diagnoses for Latino men who are gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.
DECIMOS NO MÁS, a new campaign, hopes to facilitate communication between Latino children and parents. The NO MÁS project promotes the notion that conversations about healthy sexual behaviors, consent and domestic violence will empower young people to act responsibly.
