Health

It's mosquito season; Southern Nevada Health District warns of disease risk

With rising temperatures in Las Vegas comes an increased threat: a growing mosquito population. The Southern Nevada Health District is calling on residents to help ...

Lifelike training dummies give Touro students realistic practice with children

Touro has acquired two advanced high-fidelity manikins: Tommy, a 5-year-old pediatric patient simulator, and Christie, a newborn simulator.

Response of team at Southern Hills Hospital helps woman survive stroke

Strokes occur when blood supply to the brain is blocked by a clot or ruptured blood vessel, claiming nearly 129,000 American lives annually ...

UNLV team meets vaccine hesitancy where it breeds: On social media

When Joanna Joseph’s parents immigrated to Nevada, they faced challenges including learning English, finding employment and understanding Nevada’s immunization system for ...

Health district: Multiple cases of Legionnaires' reported at hotels south of Strip

The Southern Nevada Health District is investigating five separate cases of Legionnaires’ disease at two hotels in the valley.

Gov. Lombardo unveils sweeping health care legislation

Gov. Joe Lombardo’s sweeping health care bill, introduced Thursday, would create a state office of mental health, accelerate the licensing process for health care providers ...

Five cases of illness from oysters reported in Southern Nevada

The Southern Nevada Health District announced it was investigating five cases of gastrointestinal illnesses linked to some frozen half-shell oysters from South Korea being served ...

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 ...