Medical Information Services

AIDC is the Albuquerque Area's only IHS Urban dental clinic. AIDC treats the dental health of children, adults up to age 30, pregnant women, and adults in emergency care. The friendly and professional staff is excited to make AIDC the family's dental home. Services provided are preventive and routine dental services and exams, pregnant woman dental exams, braces (referral required), and same day emergency dental care.

PullTogether is about enlisting parents, families, community members, and young people to make sure children are safe, cared for, and ready to succeed. Pulltogether serves as an information directory to New Mexicans statewide by listing agencies that provides services and supports such as COVID-19 Information, Child Care Home-visiting, Behavioral Health, Substance Abuse, Family Services, Domestic Violence Services, and Career Services. is a hotline to help assist New Mexicans find these resources across all counties in New Mexico).

The UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC) offers research consultations, custom classes, literature search assistance and guidance, and general help and assistance with finding and using health information. HSLIC partners with the College of Nursing, the College of Pharmacy, the College of Population Health, and the School of Medicine with the aim of improving health and health equity across New Mexico through education, research, clinical care, and community engagement. As the only publicly accessible academic health sciences library in New Mexico, HSLIC plays an important role in providing health information access and health literacy skills and training for the community.

Medical Home Portal is a tool and project that was implemented in 2001, and is utilized in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Rhode Island, Utah, and in New Mexico that is a one-stop shop for children and youth with special health care requirements (CYSHCN) for Families, Medical Home Teams and Physicians, Caregivers and Other Professionals. They provide them with better knowledge of local resources for their care, practice-based case managers to link families and resources, and best practice guidelines for common chronic conditions in children.

The Continuum of Care project grew out of the idea that health care services should be available and delivered in a comprehensive and coordinated manner from infancy to adulthood, assuring people with disabilities access to the full array of health services from a multidisciplinary approach. COC provides consultations to New Mexicans with developmental disabilities; trains medical students, doctors, nurses, social workers and others; and assists persons with developmental disabilities in a variety of other ways.

Children’s Medical Services work with families who have a child or youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). Services for CYSHCN birth to 21 years of age include care coordination for children and their family, access to Multidisciplinary Pediatric Specialty Clinics, care for children with a genetic condition, and follow-up care for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Those who meet financial and medical eligibility guidelines may receive payment for medical services, procedures, medications, supplies, premiums, deductibles, co-pays, diagnostic services, and care coordination.

Supports research, public health education, professional health education, patient services, community services, and global organizations. National nonprofit with chapters in multiple states. 

Advocates for people affected by sickle cell conditions and empower community-based organizations to maximize quality of life and raise public consciousness while advancing the search for a universal cure.

• Communicable Disease Control
• Vaccine Information

The NIH Health Information pages are designed to offer pointers to the wide variety of health conditions studied here at NIH. These pages also include a listing of Information Clearinghouses operated by the Institutes and Offices -- people you can talk to for further information. A large percentage of the questions about NIH on-line resources can be answered by browsing the listings in this area or by using the NIH Search Engine. The information and e-mail services on this Web site cannot provide personalized medical advice to individuals about their condition or treatment. This site provides users with information to better understand their health and their diagnosed disorders. The resources on this site should not be used as a substitute for professional medical care and we urge you to work with your medical care providers for answers to your personal health questions. They also do not rate or provide referrals to physicians or health care facilities. Such activities are usually handled by State or local Governments.

If you have questions that relate specifically to foods, medications, or over-the-counter drugs, you should visit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, has been a center of information innovation since its founding in 1836. The world’s largest biomedical library, NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe. It also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology. In addition, the Library coordinates a 6,000-member National Network of Libraries of Medicine that promotes and provides access to health information in communities across the United States.

Provides a research-based guide with information about various medication treatments for substance use disorders; National Institute on Drug Abuse. See https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-adolescent-substance-use-disorder-treatment-research-based-guide/evidence-based-approaches-to-treating-adolescent-substance-use-disorders/addiction-medications.