Health Sciences Center

, Research Assistant Professor , Kristina FloresThe University of New Mexico Cancer Center continues to collaborate with communities to better understand cancer prevention barriers and facilitators in the state. Kristina Flores, research assistant ...

On Saturday, March 2, UNM will conduct a special workshop for high school junior and senior girls who might be interested in pursuing advanced degrees in orthopedic surgery and engineering. The program is sponsored by the Perry Initiative honoring Dr. ...

Dr. Terry K. Crowe, occupational therapy professor in the School of Medicine, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Global Health. She will work with the Occupational Therapy (OT) Department at Riga Stradins University ...

Winning design, "People's Heartbeat," by Christine M. Williams.Christine M. Williams, with Albuquerque design firm Garrett Smith Ltd., has won the limited design competition for a memorial to be constructed on UNM's north campus. The site for this ...

Many biological experiments are performed on groups of cells under the assumption that all cells of a particular "type" are identical. However, individual cells within the same population may differ dramatically as a function of cell cycle stage or ...

Five-year breast cancer survival rates have improved dramatically over the past 50 years, but tumors can recur up to 10 or more years after they are detected. When tumors recur, they are even more difficult to treat. Recurring breast tumors often don't ...

DNA, like houses and cars, needs ongoing maintenance. Rays of ultraviolet sunlight, chemical pollutants and normal biochemical processes in the cell can damage it. Cells routinely repair this damage before making proteins or copying DNA for cell ...

As part of the HSC Chancellor's Leadership Forum, UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center presents, "Educating Health Professionals in the Era of Ubiquitous Information," with speaker Charles "Chuck" Friedman, Monday, Dec. 17 from 9:30-11 a.m. ...

To Screen or Not To Screen? Primary care physicians routinely face the complicated decision of when to offer preventive services and to whom. Some preventive services, like screening tests, may not help everyone and may even harm some. Conflicting ...

James Besante, a second-year student at the UNM School of Medicine, was recently given the Nicholas Skala Student Activist Award by Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) for his health care reform advocacy efforts in New Mexico. Besante serves ...