The New Mexico Department of Health is encouraging people to embrace dry January. Dry January is a global public health ...

Fewer New Mexicans died from drug overdoses for the second straight year in a row, according to mortality data released ...

Drug overdose deaths decreased statewide for the second consecutive year, according to the New Mexico Department of Health.

New Mexico is one of ten states selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to offer the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic program (CCBHC).

Some New Mexicans might be dealing with a stomach bug. Health experts warn it could be norovirus. Norovirus is a contagious illness that increases in outbreaks from November to April according to the ...

The state Department of Health issued an alert last week, warning that norovirus — passed person-to-person by infected people, through contaminated food or water, or by touching contaminated surfaces ...

Just one fly can lay up to 300 eggs at a time and is drawn "to the odor of a wound or natural opening on a live, warm-blooded ...

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Fentanyl was involved in 65% of the overdose deaths in the state in 2023, and methamphetamine was involved in 51% of deaths.

Five outbreaks have been reported since Dec. 1 in New Mexico, according to the department. Nationally, cases of norovirus doubled in early December 2024 compared to previous years, the ...

A deadly, flesh-eating parasite is threatening a resurgence in the United States and the rapid spread of infection is being ...