By Gabe Stern, Associated Press/Report for America
Nevada Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro introduced a constitutional amendment Thursday that — over a three-plus year process — could enshrine ...
A package of bipartisan bills introduced today by Nevada Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen would incentivize young doctors and graduating medical students to practice in ...
The Southern Nevada Health District said it is investigating two separate cases of Legionnaires’ disease reported after guests stayed at the Orleans in December and January. The Health District did not ...
According to Cleveland Clinic statistics, two-thirds of the 6.5 million Americans currently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are women (4.3 million), and more than half of all caregivers for people with Alzheimer’s are women.
By Jesse Bedayn, Associated Press/Report for America
In a Colorado mountain town, Christine Collins injected herself with black tar heroin while hanging out with friends in her cozy basement a few days after her 30th birthday. Sitting beneath ...
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced today he is joining attorneys general from 11 states in filing a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration claiming ...
Attorneys general from 24 states, including Nevada, signed a letter Thursday applauding two of the largest pharmacy chains in the U.S. for offering drugs to terminate ...
Norovirus is suspected of causing a recent outbreak of gastrointestinal illness at Tanaka Elementary School, according to the Southern Nevada Health District. The ...
U.S. health officials are advising people to stop using over-the-counter eye drops that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday ...
Dr. Cortland Lohff has seen plenty of familiar faces at the Southern Nevada Health District’s main campus returning to complete the COVID-19 vaccination regimen and get the latest booster. Lohff, chief medical officer at the Health District, wishes more residents shared that mentality.
It dispenses syringe kits, hygiene kits, wound care kits, hormone injection kits, safer sex kits, pregnancy tests and nasal naloxone, which is used for emergency treatment of opioid overdoses.
The first flu-related deaths of the season have been reported in Clark County amid a sharp increase in influenza cases, health officials said. Two women, one in her 40s and another ...
In Nevada, 1% of all RSV tests administered came back positive in October. That rate had risen to 10% as of Nov. 5, the CDC said. Around this time last year, positive RSV tests were sitting at roughly 3%. Southern Nevada alone reported 150 cases of RSV in September, according to the Southern Nevada Health District. Officials at the Southern Nevada Health District said ...
Children's hospitals in parts of the U.S. are seeing a surge in a common respiratory illness that can cause severe breathing problems for babies. RSV cases fell dramatically two years ago as the pandemic shut down schools, day cares and businesses. With restrictions easing ...
MGM Resorts International is gifting $1 million to a Las Vegas autism foundation to help people with developmental disabilities land jobs with the company, President and CEO Bill Hornbuckle said. The donation ...