I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
A new, state-of-the-art Scientific Laboratory facility in Albuquerque will enhance the state’s testing for infectious diseases, boost its response to threats like bioterrorism and strengthen training of New Mexico law enforcement in the use of breath alcohol testing equipment, the…
Republican Susana Martinez has said she would work to repeal New Mexico’s medical marijuana program if she’s elected governor. But undoing the state’s three-year-old medical marijuana law would represent a major undertaking. There are only two routes — through the Legislature or voter referendum — and neither would be easy.
Later this year New Mexico will start a public website to display the number of infections patients contracted at several medical facilities around the state. The website won’t break down the infection rate by facility. That comes in July 2011, when the state of New Mexico will start reporting infection rates by facility, meaning the public could compare how careful — or careless — hospitals and medical centers are in preventing — or allowing — sometime deadly infections. The catch: hospitals won’t have to share the data if they don’t want to on certain infections.
This fall New Mexico will start collecting more data to help solve a serious problem: no one knows exactly how many of the state’s half a million children are obese. While quick to praise the state’s plan this week, local officials, advocates and parents said this week that New Mexico has a long way to go to fully address the problem.
New Mexico has no law requiring hospitals to publicly report rates of hospital-acquired infections, despite the recommendations of a 2009 Healthcare-Associated Infections Advisory Committee report. The lack of public disclosure, supporters of such openness say, means that New Mexicans don’t have a way to measure the quality of care they receive at the state’s medical facilities.
A lawsuit filed 22 years ago is still costing New Mexico money and one Senator wants to cut the cash. Sen. Rod Adair threw out the word ‘scam’ as he described the millions of dollars the state has paid in…
A Republican state senator charged Friday that the Department of Health had hired more than 90 state employees since Gov. Bill Richardson imposed a state hiring freeze – and she wants to know why. Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort,…
Although it has been praised for its innovative structure, New Mexico’s medical marijuana program, which debuted this year, has also been criticized for not providing enough of the drug to meet demand and for allowing high costs that could be prohibitive for some patients. In an interview, New Mexico Secretary Alfredo Vigil says New Mexico’s medical marijuana program faces the same barriers of provision and access as other health care services.
Twelve thousand doses of nasal H1N1 flu vaccine should arrive in the state this week and will be shipped to medical providers statewide, the New Mexico Department of Health announced Monday afternoon.
A 5-year-old girl from Rio Rancho and a Roosevelt County infant are the latest New Mexicans to have died from the H1N1 virus, the state Health Department announced Thursday evening.
Parents of students enrolled at Rio Rancho schools were…
Over the years Armando Gutierrez did marketing and consulting work for sundry state agencies and public entities across New Mexico.
And in 2004 the media consultant made sure to list as many as possible when bidding for a media consulting…
There are 13 new laboratory confirmed cases of the H1N1, or “swine,” flu today, according to the New Mexico Department of Health. That brings the total number of confirmed cases to 44, spread across 11 different New Mexico counties.
New Mexico Department of Health Secretary Alfredo Vigil is the featured guest on tonight’s episide of New Mexico In Focus, a weekly show I co-host along with Gene Grant.
The New Mexico Department of Health issued a statement giving the OK for schools to reopen after 16 schools closed because of fears about the H1N1 (or “swine”) flu.
The New Mexico Department of Health issued a statement about the latest on the H1N1 (or “swine”) flu. So far, there are just nine probable cases of the virus out of 97 cases tested so far.
There are still…
New Mexico, like the rest of the country, is seeing an increase in digitized medical records used by physicians and other health professionals. But supporters of a proposal sure to go before the New Mexico Legislature say with that growth come gaps in privacy protection for patients and consumers. And they want to close them.
