Project helps improve identification of Native American remains and resolve missing persons cases By Mary Beth King July 12, 2021
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) visited the Office of Medical Investigator (OMI) at The University of New Mexico recently to see the work being done by forensic anthropologist Heather Edgar and her team to improve the identification of Native American remains and resolve missing persons cases.
Edgar worked with many at UNM to create the New Mexico Decedent Image Database (NMDID), which includes thousands of whole-body CT scans. Each scan contains about 10,000 images of a single body. The scans are valuable in many research areas, including developing methods to help make positive identifications of unknown deceased people. Anthropologists compare unknown individuals to data about known individuals, narrowing the pool of missing persons for comparison using estimates of sex, age, and other characteristics. But in some cases, such as for Nativ
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Created: July 08, 2021 03:30 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The New Mexico Department of Health will not require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 ahead of the new school year.
Currently, the Pfizer vaccine has been authorized for people at least 12 years old, but state health officials hope more age groups will be allowed to get the vaccine later in the year.
Dr. Tracie Collins, cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Department of Health, said more steps must be taken before the state could mandate the COVID-19 vaccines for public school students. Until we have regular use approval, we can not move in that direction, she said. And so it won t be anytime soon from the DOH moving towards requiring the COVID vaccine. We like to encourage as many people as possible to get vaccinated if they re eligible.