http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Studies have found that conditional cash transfer programs, in which governments pay citizens if they consistently practice societally beneficial behaviors, have improved pediatric health care and education in Mexico, increased HIV testing in Malawi, and reduced sexually transmitted infections in Tanzania. Public health researchers therefore investigated whether the idea could be applied to HIV risk behaviors among gay men and male sex workers in Mexico City. A new study reports not only that some members of those populations would change behavior for conditional cash payments, but the exact prices they would accept. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-incentive-price-hiv-mexico.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:31:28 EST news279199881 (AP)—The Mexican government is battling an egg shortage and hoarding that have caused prices to spike in a country with the highest per-capita egg consumption on Earth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-mexico-scrambles-egg-shortage.html Health Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:45:12 EST news265031091 Officials have slain 2.5 million birds at poultry farms in western Mexico over the past three weeks in an attempt to contain a bird flu outbreak, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-mexico-million-poultry-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 11 Jul 2012 03:26:30 EST news261195979 The Mexican government declared a national animal health emergency on Monday in the face of an aggressive bird flu epidemic that has infected nearly 1.7 million poultry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-mexico-declares-bird-flu-emergency.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:52:57 EST news260473965