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UNLV group aims to serve Latino pre-med students

Sept. 16, 2018

By Camalot Todd

Kevin Ashi, 21, spent his childhood between his parents’ countries and the United States. The UNLV student hopes to draw on his experiences in both rural Mexico and in Syria to help solve public health challenges in ...
Health exchange head says Heller bill gives illusion of protecting pre-existing conditions

Aug. 30, 2018

By Yvonne Gonzalez

A Republican Senate bill that seeks to bolster protections for patients with pre-existing conditions falls short of current law, said Nevada’s health insurance exchange leader ...
'The evidence is there': Medical professionals say pot an expanding part of children’s medicine

Aug. 29, 2018

By Chris Kudialis

“Cannabis is safe, especially under medical supervision. People worry that using cannabis would make kids worse, but we’re finding the exact opposite is true.”
State OKs contract to move off federal health insurance exchange platform

Aug. 14, 2018

By Yvonne Gonzalez

Nevada is looking to save more than $18 million by transitioning the state’s health insurance exchange from healthcare.gov to its own platform under ...
Nevada health exchange rates expected to see lowest rise yet

Aug. 6, 2018

Associated Press

State insurance officials say Nevadans who get health coverage through the online insurance marketplace are only expected to see a slight increase in ...
Mosquitoes in Las Vegas area test positive for West Nile virus

July 27, 2018

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez

Mosquitoes in the east valley have tested positive for the West Nile virus, but there have been no reports of human cases this year, the Southern Nevada Health District announced today. The infected mosquitoes were ...
If high court reverses Roe v. Wade, 22 states poised to ban abortion

July 12, 2018

By Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News

What would the U.S. look like without Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide? That’s the question now that President Donald Trump has chosen conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to ...
Health District: Spike in heat-related deaths last year

July 6, 2018

Associated Press

Las Vegas-area health officials say there was a spike in heat-related deaths last year. The Southern Nevada Health District says there were 123 heat-related deaths in ...
Troopers to carry drug to reverse opioid overdoses

June 28, 2018

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez

Nevada Highway Patrol troopers will soon begin carrying Narcan, a drug to reverse the effects of opioid overdoses, the agency announced today. Troopers are still being trained on how to ...
Q&A: Dr. Shannon Orsak

June 15, 2018

Doctor brings concierge-level service to medicine on the Las Vegas Strip.
Trustees report warns Medicare finances worsening

June 5, 2018

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

Medicare will run out of money sooner than expected, and Social Security's financial problems can't be ignored either, the government said Tuesday in a sobering checkup on programs vital to the middle class. The report from program trustees says ...
Outsiders swoop in vowing to rescue rural hospitals short on hope — and money

June 5, 2018

By Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News

The woes of Surprise Valley Community Hospital reflect an increasingly brutal environment for America’s rural hospitals, which are disappearing by the dozens amid declining populations, economic troubles, corporate consolidation and, sometimes, self-inflicted wounds ...
UNLV gets $11.4 million grant for personalized medicine research

June 1, 2018

By Mick Akers

UNLV has received an $11.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance personalized medicine in Nevada. Personalized medicine is based on ...
State to hear companies' pitches in return to in-house health exchange site

May 21, 2018

By Yvonne Gonzalez

Presentations are set for today and Tuesday for vendors that are vying to put together the state’s platform for buying health insurance under the Affordable Care Act ...
How detention center is working to treat, not just confine, the mentally ill

May 19, 2018

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez

On Wednesday afternoon, the inmates slept, read and chatted in one of the open housing units. In another, a medic accompanied by two officers went room to room, administering medication ...
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