Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun

Neurologist Charles Bernick, principal investigator of the Professional Fighters Clinical Research Study, at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012.

Study of fighters aimed at avoiding complications of brain disease

Apr 20, 2012 (12:25 p.m.)

By Conor Shine

Initial results from a landmark study being conducted on boxers and mixed martial arts fighters at the Ruvo brain center show there may be a starting point where repeated blows to the head begin affecting memory and cognition.

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  Cafe Martorano at the Rio to serve benefit dinner for Ruvo Center

  April 19, 2012

  By Ron Sylvester

  Steve Martorano will cook a four-course Italian dinner next month at his Rio restaurant to benefit the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.

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  As Alzheimer’s ravages father’s mind, son takes off on cross-country journey in support

  April 17, 2012

  By Jackie Valley

  Las Vegas resident Jesse Ables is taking steps on his own to raise awareness about a disease ravaging his father’s memory. Thousands of steps, in fact.

• With charitable funding dwindling, philanthropic groups begin strategizing

  March 7, 2012

  By Steve Green

  Nevadans cut back on individual charitable giving to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars during the recession — and local charities may soon endure more pain due to pending funding reductions from major sources. To prepare, philanthropic organizations in Las Vegas have taken a first step toward getting more out of the dollars that will still be coming in.

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  Ruvo Center adds Nobel Prize winner to team

  February 18, 2012

  By Richard N. Velotta

  Dr. Stanley Prusiner loves to solve puzzles. In Las Vegas, he’ll try to solve one of the biggest puzzles of the medical profession.

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  The man Muhammad Ali calls the ‘world’s best’

  February 17, 2012

  By Ric Anderson

  He was there for Muhammad Ali’s fights; when Ali attended the funeral of his trainer, Angelo Dundee; and when former President Bill Clinton spoke during the opening of the fighter’s cultural and educational center in Louisville, Ky., to name just a few of the big moments in Ali’s life.

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  S.I. swimsuit models swing by Caesars to promote magazine, Ali celebration

  February 16, 2012

  By Ric Anderson

  Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Anne V has never attended a boxing match, but she and 16 of her fellow SI models can now honestly say they've spent time in the ring in the Fight Capital of the World.

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  Ruvo Center taking strides in researching possible treatments for diseases

  February 15, 2012

  By Conor Shine

  In just a few years, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has become one of the nation’s leading facilities for the research and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, and the Las Vegas-based clinic is showing no signs of slowing down.

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  Fighters embrace Ruvo Center project that tackles head trauma

  February 15, 2012

  By Case Keefer

  In the same city where some of the most significant bouts of the past 50 years have taken place, a new fight is beginning. The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has launched a study aimed at reducing traumatic head injuries and brain diseases sometimes suffered by fighters.

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  Lou Ruvo Center’s world-class services are for locals, too

  February 14, 2012

  By Tovin Lapan

  When the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened to patients in July 2009, one of its primary objectives was to provide a place for Las Vegas residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases to obtain treatment locally. Now in its third year of operation, the center has only expanded on that mission.

• Volunteering at the Ruvo Center: How to lend a hand — and a heart

  February 14, 2012

  By Tovin Lapan

  Within the architectural exclamation point of a building that is the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, there are world-renowned doctors, acclaimed researchers and expert therapists. But the distinguished research and treatment center in downtown Las Vegas would not run properly, nor would it be able to meet its own high standards for patient care, without its dedicated team of volunteers.

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  Vegas gala to celebrate Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday, benefit Ruvo Center

  February 13, 2012

  By Ric Anderson

  The world’s eyes will be on Muhammad Ali this Saturday in Las Vegas, as they’ve been so many times in so many places over so many years. But another treasure will be spotlighted during this weekend’s gala to celebrate Ali’s 70th birthday, and it’s so meaningful that Ali and his family are using his starpower to help raise awareness of it.

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  Lou Ruvo Center helps those afflicted by diseases of memory, mood and movement

  February 13, 2012

  By Richard N. Velotta

  The illnesses treated at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health are described as diseases of memory, mood and movement.

• Nobel laureate to chair Lou Ruvo Center scientific advisory panel

  February 3, 2012

  By Richard N. Velotta

  In a major step toward establishing the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health as the pre-eminient facility in its field nationally, a Nobel laureate has agreed to chair its scientific advisory committee.

• Where I Stand: Medicine making strides in Las Vegas

  October 16, 2011

  By Brian Greenspun

  It is big news in Las Vegas when 2,000 to 3,000 residents who suffer from multiple sclerosis don’t have a doctor or the ability to be treated in one of the largest metropolitan areas of the country.

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