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Researchers at The University of New Mexico are using social media to help educate the public and generate funding for clinical investigations on the effects of using medical Cannabis. Patients, clinicians, and scientists still know very little about...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, in partnership with the School of Medicine’s Department of Radiology, is jointly offering a master of science degree in nuclear engineering with a concentration in...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and California State Polytechnic University (CalPoly) address a major gap in the scientific literature, finding that medical Cannabis may not only treat such health conditions as chronic pain and...

University of New Mexico researchers and their colleagues from the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications (LESA) Center based at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have demonstrated a new technology for gauging the effectiveness of light therapy to...

For the 19th consecutive summer, Dr. Eliseo “Cheo” Torres, vice president for Student Affairs and professor of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies, hosts the “Traditional Medicine without Borders: Curanderismo in the Southwest and Mexico,”...

Although my mother wasn’t a curandera — or traditional healer — she should have been one. Growing up on a rural farm away from populated areas made healthcare harder to come by. “Don’t you dare get sick,” she would say to me and my siblings. “And if you...

If you walk, drive or bike by the UNM North Campus Golf course on Tuesdays or Thursdays, you’ve likely been an unknowing witness to a beautiful movement. Running Medicine is a group dedicated to bringing love, community and connectedness to our state...

Eliseo “Cheo” Torres is once again taking his popular two-week in person summer Mexican Traditional Healing, or Curanderismo class, to the world-wide stage through Coursera online learning.  For the past 18 years, Torres has been teaching an in person...

UNM’s School of Engineering’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, in partnership with the School of Medicine’s Department of Radiology, is now jointly offering a master of science in nuclear engineering with a concentration in medical...

A new interdisciplinary course, between The University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine and the College of Education (COE), is bringing medical students out of the operating room and into the kitchen to learn about nutrition. The elective course,...