The University of New Mexico School of Medicine is marking its first 50 years, celebrating the visionaries who cobbled together $25,000 dollars in state funding, a former soda bottling plant and an abandoned mortuary to launch a badly needed medical school in 1964.
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For decades, Camp Enchantment has brightened the summer for thousands of cancer-ailing children from New Mexico. But after 28 years of operation, the summer camp is in a tough financial spot, and camp organizers are asking the community to help sustain the program.
The Risk/Resiliency Assessment Project for Students (RAPS) is a positive youth-development project that puts public-health data in young people’s hands and empowers them to engage adults at their school and in their community to change troubling statistics, as well as celebrate their strengths.
They started out as high school students in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Stanley, Gallup and Rio Rancho. Today UNM's first BA/MD graduates are medical doctors, ready to embark on residency programs and careers in medicine. It's a big step in the short history of the BA/MD program, designed to address New Mexico's physician shortage.
New Mexico native Kate Keefe has suffered from fibromyalgia and migraines since 2002, and the pain from her chronic conditions almost defeated her. But a desire to engage in life rather than be controlled by pain helped Kate fight back. She found the support system she needed to begin rebuilding her life, and the University of New Mexico Pain Center was there to help her when she was ready.
As home to the state's only Level I trauma center, UNM Hospital needs to be prepared for just about any kind of medical emergency - including those involving mass casualties. Response to terrorism, natural and man-made disasters and chemical accidents require highly specialized training. More than 30 UNM emergency responders got that training, thanks to a unique disaster simulation at one of the nation's premier training facilities.
July 25, 2014 — The University of New Mexico School of Medicine is marking its first 50 years, celebrating the visionaries who cobbled together $25,000 dollars in state funding, a former soda bottling plant and an abandoned mortuary to launch a badly needed medical school in 1964.
July 25, 2014 — Equally comfortable in the lab and in the clinic, Dr. Olivier Rixe’s face lights up as he talks about how he brings the discoveries of basic science to his cancer patients. Rixe recently joined the UNM Cancer Center as the associate director for clinical research and will help develop the early phase clinical trials and the neuro-oncology programs.
July 22, 2014 — Dr. Jonathan Abrams, who died in Albuquerque this month, served the UNM School of Medicine for more than three decades before his retirement in 2008. But medicine was only part of his legacy. A life-long art collector, he was the founder of the UNM Health Sciences Center's extensive art collection.
July 18, 2014 — On a hot summer day in Albuquerque a cold treat can go a long way. All the way to Africa, in the case of eight University of New Mexico nursing students.
July 11, 2014 — It gets hot living in New Mexico. Trying to exercise or compete outside, especially during the summer, can be challenging. One of the biggest challenges is maintaining critical levels of water and electrolytes in your body.