Health

UNLV professor faces loss of grant money for LGBTQ+ caregiving work over Trump crackdown

In February, UNLV assistant professor Jason Flatt received notice that the U.S. Department of Defense would no longer fund his $1.4 million study on veterans ...

UMC employs advanced robotics for minimally invasive surgeries

University Medical Center is transforming surgical care for Southern Nevada patients through its expanding robotics and clinical technology program …

Intermountain Health announced today that longtime health care leader Lawrence Barnard will become president of the first stand-alone children’s hospital in Nevada. Barnard, who serves ...

Nevada proposal seeks to strike balance for food vendors, public health

Nevada legislators are pushing forward with an initiative to refine the regulatory landscape for the state’s food vendors, aiming to strike a balance between public ...

Las Vegas pizza chef cooks up plan to fight Parkinson's with foundation

When Metro Pizza co-founder John Arena learned of his Parkinson’s diagnosis 11 years ago, his immediate response wasn’t despair — it was determination to transform ...

Funding top of mind for new chief of Southern Nevada Health District

When Cassius Lockett was getting his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Davis, he worked in the kitchen of a restaurant being investigated for ...

Lawmakers back bills to bring more doctors, dentists to Nevada

U.S.Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., has reintroduced legislation that would permit doctors and dentists in underserved areas to defer their student loan payments interest free until ...

Reform group calls out prisons in Nevada for health-related failures

Athar Haseebullah said he hadn’t met many people who came out of Nevada’s prison system in better health than when they arrived. The Nevada American ...

Polarizing responses to COVID still resonate 5 years later in US, Nevada

Five years after becoming Nevada’s first diagnosed COVID-19 patient, Ronald Pipkins reflects on the lasting division the pandemic carved into America’s social fabric — a ...

Cure 4 the Kids strengthens pediatric care in Nevada with new geneticist

Dr. Mark Nunes, a family geneticist who treats those at risk for genetic disorders or cancers, feels right at home in his new position in ...

Dr. Cassius Lockett has taken over as health officer for the Southern Nevada Health District, replacing Dr. Fermin Leguen, who retired in February. Lockett previously ...

Nevada governor urges feds to protect Medicaid funding amid concerns of deep cuts

Gov. Joe Lombardo is urging Congress and the Trump administration to refrain from slashing Medicaid funding, warning that cuts to essential programs alone “will not ...

Historic $17M donation to help Las Vegas' St. Rose Dominican Hospital expand its health services

St. Rose Dominican Hospital-Siena Campus is receiving a historic donation of $17 million from local philanthropists Andrew and Dr. Peggy Cherng, owners of the Panda ...

Cowardice of Senate GOP creates environment for resurgence of measles

Twenty-five years ago, the World Health Organization and U.S. officials celebrated a WHO declaration that a highly successful ...

Republicans’ budget puts Americans of all political stripes in crosshairs

The latest Republican budget resolution proposes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, with $2 trillion carved out of “mandatory spending” — a euphemism for gutting Medicaid, ...

Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions

Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled ...

UNLV medical student pushes for ban on plastic cutting boards in restaurants

When Joshua Khorsandi moved to Las Vegas last year to start at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, he noticed many restaurants using plastic cutting ...

Planned children’s hospital in Las Vegas projected to bring major economic benefits

The first stand-alone children’s hospital in Southern Nevada is projected to deliver an annual $841 million economic boost to the state, according to an independent ...

Nevada Sen. Cortez Masto grills Kennedy during hearing, questions his independence

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he didn’t know if women in some states would be entitled to emergency care for an incomplete miscarriage under a ...

Home health care workers headed to Carson City in search of pay raise

Nevada home care workers will return to the Legislature this year to seek another pay bump they say is needed to keep up with the ...