Healthcare

Boomerang Hosts Fundraiser For Local Child Fighting Leukemia

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Boomerang Consignment and Gaia Gifts Owner Anna Dillane encourages the community to help local 10-year-old Austyn, who is battling leukemia. ‘Let’s come together, Los Alamos, and help this family … the LAST thing they should be thinking about is money!’ Dillane said. Community members are asked to donate in person at Boomerang, 1247 Central Ave., or directly through GoFundMe here. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Q&A Series With LAMC’s New Providers: Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Tania Pence

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Dr. Tania Pence
Orthopedic Surgeon
Los Alamos Orthopedics & Sports Medicine

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

          • Editor’s note: This is part of a Q&A series featuring new providers at Los Alamos Medical Center:

Dr. Tania Pence is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree. She brings 20 years of experience and expertise to her practice at Los Alamos Orthopedics & Sports Medicine inside Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC), where she began working on Dec. 1, 2025. She is affiliated with organizations such as the American Read More

Workshop: Healing Our Individual And Collective Trauma Saturday At Unitarian Church

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Andrea Hill

COMMUNITY News:

Andrea Hill, Kate Barnhart and Tom Steward will host a workshop, “Healing Our Individual and Collective Trauma — Responding skillfully to whatever life brings: practical tools for regulation, clarity, and resilience” 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Unitarian Church, 1738 N Sage Loop St.

Whether navigating personal stress or feeling the weight of what’s happening in the world, this workshop offers grounded, evidence-based tools to help people find steadiness and reconnect with their own resilience. The public is invited to join in for a morning Read More

Documents Added To LANL Electronic Public Reading Room

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LANL News:

New documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.

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Infectious Disease MDF: ‘Hantavirus Is Not The Next COVID—But It Is A Warning’

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Tyler B. Evans, MD, MS, MPH, DTM&H, FIDSA 

MEDICAL News:

The hantavirus outbreak aboard the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius has triggered alarming headlines and understandable anxiety. But according to Dr. Tyler Evans, infectious disease specialist, CEO of Wellness Equity Alliance, and former Chief Medical Officer for New York City’s COVID-19 response, hantavirus is most likely not the next pandemic, but it does expose how fragile and improvised global outbreak preparedness still is.

Dr. Evans says the Hondius outbreak should be understood as a stress test, not a panic event. Read More

UNM-LA Collaborates With UNM To Offer Early Assurance Program To Pre-Professional Health Students

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From left, UNM-LA student Cruz Estrada, UNM-LA Science Dept. Lecturer II Derek Martinez and UNM-LA student Brittini Suazo in biology class. UNM-LA has partnered with UNM in Albuquerque to offer an Early Assurance Program for pre-professional health students interested in pursuing a doctorate in pharmacy. Courtesy/UNM-LA

BY KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Pharmacy Dean Donald Godwin recently reached out to University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) Chancellor Mike Holtzclaw and Dean of Instruction Brent Pickett Read More

Local Shop For The Cure Yard Sale Fundraiser May 15-16

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COMMUNITY News:

The fourth annual yard sale to raise funds for breast cancer will be held 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, May 15, and Saturday, May 16, at 390 Connie Ave. in White Rock.

Anyone interested in donating items for the yard sale may drop them off by the garage door at 390 Connie Ave. before May 12. Please only contribute clean, gently used, saleable items.

The annual yard sale raises funds for the national non-profit Susan G. Komen, to fund breast cancer research and treatment via local resident Nancy Partridge’s participation in the annual 3-Day 60-mile walks. All proceeds go directly to Susan Read More

State To Stabilize Rural Healthcare With New Support Center 

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NMHCA News:  

SANTA FE — New Mexico is taking a major step toward improving the financial and operational strength of rural health care providers, by establishing a statewide center for rural health sustainability and innovation.  

The New Mexico Health Care Authority (HCA) has released a request for proposals to find a vendor for the Center for Rural Health Sustainability & Innovation that will provide technical assistance, shared services, and partnership support to rural, frontier and tribal health providers across the state. The center is a cornerstone initiative of the state’s Read More

Op/Ed: Petition Circulating To Keep LAMC OBGYN Open

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By NICOLE O’DANIEL
Los Alamos

We, the Los Alamos community and surrounding areas, want to keep labor and delivery (L&D) open at the Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC). It has been devastating news for many in our community to learn of the closure as, for our community members it is not safer or better for pregnant or laboring women to be forced to travel outside of Los Alamos through cellphone dead zones. The community is coming together via a petition/letter that insists LAMC keep their doors open and continue providing necessary services to the women in our community.

In the formal announcement Read More

Local Breast Cancer Research Advocate Participates In The Susan G Komen Center For Public Policy Advocacy Summit

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Los Alamos resident Nancy Partridge, right and Albuquerque resident Lola Neudecker attended The Susan G Komen Center for Public Policy annual Advocacy Summit April 27-29 in Washington, D.C. Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

Los Alamos resident Nancy Partridge and Albuquerque resident Lola Neudecker joined 200 volunteer Advocacy Ambassadors April 27-29 at The Susan G Komen Center for Public Policy annual Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C.

The two advocates, who have known each other since second grade, spent the first part of this week visiting with members of the 119th Congress, advocating Read More