Alyssa “Florida” Gallegos, CNM October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month—the perfect time to discuss the importance of mammography. Because breast cancer is often detectable in its early stages when there’s a good chance for a cure, screening is essential to early detection. Most significantly, mammography can identify tumors even before they can be felt. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among wom... ... Read More

Jay Bishop, M.D. Eastern New Mexico Medical Group Urology Specialists According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prostate cancer is now the second most common cancer among men in the United States. The risk of developing prostate cancer progressively increases with age, and while it’s rare before the age of 40, one in seven men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer within their lifetimes. There is some good news as it pertains to the prevention and survival rates related to this parti... ... Read More

Ashley Rivers, M.D. Eastern New Mexico Medical Group Cardiovascular Associates In the past, Roswellians traveled elsewhere for advanced health care. However things are changing. Eastern New Mexico Medical Center has been pursuing a sustained effort to recruit highly qualified specialists and offer services previously not available in Roswell. In 2016 I was recruited to ENMMC and began working as an interventional cardiologist, treats peripheral vascular disease (blocked arteries in the legs) in addition... ... Read More

As awareness to the nation’s opioid epidemic continues to gain attention, health care professionals are rethinking how to go about treating long-term pain; and thanks to significant research in recent years, we now understand that chronic pain is complex and varied, so it can neither be easily diagnosed nor solved. As such, doctors must balance a patient’s symptoms with medical analysis, weighing the risks and potential benefits of different treatments. The most innovative health care providers are tran... ... Read More