An educator at the New Mexico Brain Injury Resource Center and a brain injury survivor have teamed up to announce an art project aimed at increasing brain injury awareness. The Unmasking Brain Injury Project is also meant to provide a voice to those who may feel...
When New Mexico patients have a prescription for a medication that has been prescribed by a doctor, they will need to pick up the medication from a pharmacy. For a variety of reasons, errors can sometimes occur when the pharmacists fill the prescriptions. In some...
A New Mexico mother might have a cesarean delivery for a variety of reasons, including having had a prior C-section, risks to the baby, pregnancy continuing beyond due date, or simple convenience. In some cases, a mother may have a say in the matter, but in other...
New Mexico residents may be interested to learn about a study on reports of infant poisonings. Researchers on the study that was conducted by the U.S. Poison Control Center looked at data gathered by the National Poison Data System over a 10-year period. There were...
Expectant parents in New Mexico and around the country may believe that the quality of medical care provided by hospitals is generally consistent, but an investigation by CNN has revealed wide discrepancies in the level of infant care in American medical facilities....
New Mexico patients expecting to undergo transplant surgery or any other kind of medical procedure that may require hospitalization should be aware of a deadly mold infection outbreak at a Pittsburgh hospital in 2015. The mold outbreak caused the deaths of three...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to people in New Mexico and nationwide about the potential for dosing errors when switching between two different formulations of Merck's oral antifungal drug, Noxafil. The agency has received 11 reports of...
Patients who need surgery in New Mexico and throughout the United States can be made safer through methods that combine both a change in culture and a change in systems. What is probably the largest observational study that looked at surgical teams was conducted by...
New Mexico residents may be surprised to find out that not all doctors see eye to eye on what constitutes brain death. A study published on Dec. 28 in the medical journal JAMA Neurology indicates that there is a lot of inconsistency when it comes to incorporating...
New Mexico residents may be interested in a recent Canadian study that compared planned home births with hospital births. For expectant mothers who have no risk factors or complications, having a baby at home can be safe and very beneficial. In fact, according to the...
