Healthcare

Robinson: How Many Doctors Do We Have To Lose In New Mexico Before Lawmakers Act?

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

Dr. Lawrence Andrade and his wife, Dr. Aedra Andrade, are leaving Gallup. He’s a private practice family medicine doctor and owner of Family Medicine Associates. He’s practiced in Gallup since 2003. She’s a family practice physician with Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital. Together they have 9,000 active patients in a place that’s already undeserved.

Andrade has deep roots here, which makes his loss all the more painful. He’s a Gallup native and graduate of Gallup High School, UNM and the UNM School of Medicine. He is the team Read More

New Mexico Paid Leave Bill Clears First Senate Committee

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House Sponsor Rep. Christine Chandler

By NATHAN BROWN
The Santa Fe New Mexican

A bill to extend paid time off to more New Mexico workers took a step closer to becoming law Saturday.

The Paid Family and Medical Leave Act passed out of the Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee on a 6-4 party-line vote. It now heads to the Senate Finance Committee, which approved last year’s version of the bill.

Paid leave advocates have been pushing for years to create a state-run program. Last year’s bill passed the Senate before failing narrowly in the House. This year’s bill started in and has already Read More

Determan: Time To Speak Up For Tax Reforms For Health Care Workers

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From ANDREA DETERMAN
Chair
DPLA

Think New Mexico’s proposed legislation to fully repeal New Mexico’s Gross Receipts Tax (GRT) on medical services is approaching its critical decision point.

This morning, House Bill 344 passed the House Health & Human Services Committee unanimously and it now heads to the House Taxation and Revenue Committee. Meanwhile, the Senate version of the bill, Senate Bill 295, received a positive hearing in the Senate Tax, Bustiness & Transportation Committee yesterday afternoon.

The House and Senate tax committees will soon be meeting to decide Read More

Musk/Trump And CDC – Laying The Foundation For The Next Pandemic

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By RICHARD SKOLNIK
White Rock

The staffing and budget cuts that Musk/Trump are taking to CDC will do immeasurable harm to the health of Americans and to the health of people globally. These harms will take many years to overcome and must be stopped now.

Eliminating critical personnel and funds will immediately harm CDC’s ability to detect, prevent, and help us respond to infectious disease threats. It will harm our preparedness to deal in a timely manner with the next emerging infectious disease, at a time when vaccination rates are falling and bird flu poses potentially grave risks to us and to Read More

Santa Fe Osteopathic Medicine School Pitch Hits Snag Over State Support Request

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The Roundhouse in Santa Fe. Post file photo

By GABRIELLE PORTER
The Santa Fe New Mexican

An embryonic proposal to launch a new osteopathic medical school in Santa Fe hit a snag this week over a request for state support.

The idea to create New Mexico’s third school of medicine came from an organization called Access Health Initiative, led by the same people behind the Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine, and is “really at the inception,” partner Phil Zaveri said in an interview Friday.

A key part of that plan was a bill sponsored by Rep. Tara Lujan, D-Santa Fe, calling for $40 million from New Mexico’s Read More

Fentanyl, Juvenile Crime Bills Shot Down In House Committee

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HB 274 Sponsor Rep. Elaine Sena Cortez, R-Hobbs

By ESTEBAN CANDELARIA
The Santa Fe New Mexican

During debates on the crime package passed last month — which bundled together several tough-on-crime measures but which critics said was inadequate — lawmakers said they were just getting started.

But Thursday evening, a panel known for killing Republican-sponsored legislation shot down two bills held up by GOP lawmakers, prosecutors and Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham as ways of tackling some of the state’s greatest public safety issues.

House Bills 134 and 274, which respectively would Read More

Lea County Resident Tests Positive For Measles After Death

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NMDOH News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) confirms that a deceased resident of Lea County, who was unvaccinated, tested positive for measles.

The official cause of death is still under investigation by the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator. However, NMDOH Scientific Laboratory has confirmed the presence of the measles virus. The individual did not seek medical care before passing. 

Measles is a highly contagious respiratory illness that can cause severe complications. One in five cases requires hospitalization, and approximately three in every 1,000 Read More

Legislative Roundup: 16 Days Remaining In Session

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks to people assembled in the Rotunda at the state Capitol in honor of Women’s History Month Thursday, March 6, 2025. Photo by Michael G. Seamans/The New Mexican

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks to people assembled in the Rotunda at the state Capitol in honor of Women’s History Month Thursday, March 6, 2025. Photo by Michael G. Seamans/The New Mexican

The Santa Fe New Mexican Staff:

State’s court highest upholds most of governor’s emergency orders on guns, drug use: The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday ruled Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency orders Read More

LAPD’s Victim Assistant On Domestic Violence & Gaslighting

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By LAPD’s Victim Assistant:

The Los Alamos Police Department’s Victim Assistant shares the following information related to Domestic Violence and Gaslighting.

What is Gaslighting?

Gaslighting is a term that describes a type of emotional and psychological abuse in which an abuser convinces his or her victim that the abuse he or she is remembering didn’t occur, or wasn’t nearly as severe as the victim remembers. Gaslighting often makes the victims of abuse doubt their own memory, question themselves, and at times feel like they are going crazy.

Gaslighting can be hard to recognize, especially Read More

Bill To Allow Medical ‘Magic Mushrooms’ In New Mexico Gets Groovy Reception From Lawmakers

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Co-Sponsor Sen. Jeff Steinborn, D-Las Cruces

By DANIEL CHACÓN
The Santa Fe New Mexican

First marijuana, now magic mushrooms.

A state known for ending up at the bottom of a long list of rankings could be among the first in the nation to roll out a program for medical use of psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as magic mushrooms.

The Senate Judiciary Committee late Wednesday endorsed Senate Bill 219 on an 8-1 vote.

The lone holdout, Sen. Katy Duhigg, D-Albuquerque, praised psilocybin’s efficacy.

“I am very torn on this because I know that psilocybin has amazing potential for substance use Read More