Health Sciences Center

No parent or child ever wants to hear "Your child has cancer." However, 13,500 children in the United States each year will hear these words – 100 are New Mexico's children. One in 330 Americans will develop cancer before age 20. Because of the overall ...

Emily Haozous, an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico College of Nursing, has won a competitive grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop interventions to encourage Native American women to undergo cancer ...

The UNM Prevention Research Center and the Rio Grande Institute sponsor a special research presentation of the "UNM Preventive Medicine Residency Program," Tuesday, Aug. 30 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Research Incubator Building (RIB) Commons located on ...

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Institute for Ethics is offering an Interdisciplinary Applied Ethics course, "Joan Gibson Health Care Ethics Program," Saturday, Sept. 17 through Saturday, Nov. 19 at the Institute for Ethics located at ...

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Regional Administrator for Region 6 Don Babers visited the construction site of the new UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in Rio Rancho, N.M., today. HUD issued a $143.4 million Section 242 mortgage insurance ...

The UNM Prevention Research Center and the Rio Grande Institute present the next lecture in its Journal Club Series titled, "Fueling the Obesity Epidemic? Artificially Sweetened Beverage Use and Long-Term Weight Gain," with Dr. Robert Kong on Tuesday, ...

Dr. Anne R. Simpson was recently honored by the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs (OAAA) for her work within the community, including her role in helping to create the newly formed group, the African America/Black Healthcare Professionals ...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative has announced grant funds for interdisciplinary faculty research focused on health policy. Grants range from $20,000 to $50,000 for a one-year period. The RFA will award a total ...

A local woman is doing all she can to honor the memory of her brother—and help prevent other families from losing a loved one. Carrie Stansbery and her parents, David and Charlene Schroeder, recently set up the Scott Schroeder Memorial Fund at the ...

University of New Mexico Cancer Center researchers Larry Sklar and Bruce Edwards recently unveiled a powerful new method for discovering molecules that target the regulation of cancer cell life and death. Their high-tech screening approach, detailed in a ...