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By Ken Terry Nov 7, 2009 The great health information technology experiment launched by the Obama Administration is still in its early stages.

Main Category: Immune System / Vaccines Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 Immunity to whooping cough lasts at least 30 years on average, much longer than previously thought, according to a new study by researchers based at the University of Michigan and the University of New Mexico.

University of New Mexico junior defender Elizabeth Lambert has been suspended indefinitely from the women's soccer team after her rough play during a ...

Anthropologist Mari Lyn Salvador, a scholar of Panama's native Kuna people and the textiles that they create and an experienced museum professional, has been named director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

A Hartford man has been charged with lying to police investigating the stabbing death of UConn football player Jasper Howard.

Former New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice Gene Franchini has died while addressing first-year law students at the University of New Mexico.

A man arrested in Colorado is suspected of drugging and raping multiple women across the southwest over the past 15 years.

Daniel J. Halloran III, left, and Peter A. Koo defeated Democratic opponents in City Council races in Queens.

Brian Dugan said something inside of him would just "click," sparking him to rape and kill, but he couldn't control his violent impulses despite knowing they were wrong.

A man suspected of trying to kill a police officer and his family in Colorado has been linked to more than a dozen rapes in the southwestern United States, including a 2006 sexual assault in Austin, local police said.

New Mexico health officials say an 11-year old boy from Bernalillo County has died from the swine flu.

A man accused of trying to kill a Pueblo police officer and his family early last month was accused today of being the "Ether Man" rapist wanted in a series of New Mexico rapes spanning two decades.

A man suspected in a drive-by shooting who deputies say was ready for a shootout with them fell from a tree early Monday morning, suffering head injuries.

Ajene Watson, Managing Member of the private lending and financial business development and management firm, Ajene Watson, LLC joined Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Center's XVIIth General Assembly Conference.

A peer-reviewed article on diabetes prevention co-authored by Professor Janice Thompson from the Department of Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences has been selected as the Sarah Mazelis Best Paper of the Year by the journal 'Health Promotion Practice'. The paper, entitled a Development of a planning and evaluation methodology for assessing the ...

A woman accused of embezzling from a nonprofit near Aspen, Colo., apparently has opened an accounting practice in Santa Fe.

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Dr. Vic Strasburger of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine has written new guidelines adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics that has doctors asking kids two questions about their media habits.

Psychiatric medication puts pregnant women at preterm delivery risk Researchers at the University of Washington, University of Michigan and Michigan State University have found that pregnant women with a history of depression who used psychiatric medication are at higher risk of premature child delivery.

Sandia researchers and others at the University of New Mexico , the Joint BioEnergy Institute , Novozymes and North Carolina State University's Center for Integrated Fungal Research have received a DNA sequencing award from the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute to study microbial genes in arid grasslands.