A national pharmaceutical company has donated drug-deactivation pouches to help combat prescription opioid abuse in Southern Nevada through a new partnership with Roseman University of Health Sciences.
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A decision by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education enables UNLV’s medical school to begin recruiting and accepting students for its first class in July 2017.
Answers to some frequently asked questions about mercury and the risk posed by inhalation of its vapors.
When Lois moved here from California, she expected to get a therapist’s license with no problem. After all, she had a master’s degree in marriage family therapy (MFT) and art therapy. But the board denied her application. She needed more training to practice in Nevada.
A slow but steady journey with occasional spurts of impressive growth — that’s how Las Vegas Deputy City Manager Scott Adams sees the future of the Las Vegas Medical District now that the UNLV School of Medicine is becoming a reality.
When children struggle with mental health, it can be difficult to notice. Sometimes, it’s shrugged off as normal teenage angst or behavioral battles, but other times, the internal war becomes a violent and physical combat sending children to the hospital. If parents and caretakers don’t see warning signs or shrug them off, school officials could be a student’s only safeguard.
It’s been a vision of UNLV leaders for years: A widely supported medical school educating the region’s future doctors and bearing the university’s name.
Touro University Nevada’s autism center unveiled a new name and new look Wednesday, promising that an increase in staff and space will cut waitlist times for families seeking services.
Pharmacy students at Roseman University are volunteering to help Nevada’s Medicare population learn more about their insurance coverage, and a new grant is expected to boost their efforts.
A grant is nudging the nascent UNLV School of Medicine closer to its fundraising goals. The United Health Foundation has awarded the school a $3 million grant to develop educational programs and three planned community clinics.
The College of Southern Nevada has unveiled a plan to build a $43 million health sciences building at its Henderson campus.
A Clark County woman claims the negligence of UNLV’s dental school caused her to spend seven days in a Las Vegas hospital last year.
When University of Nevada School of Medicine student Shavon Moore found out she’d been accepted into a psychiatry residency program, she was excited.
It was just a few years ago when the global economy was rocked, the domestic stock market was cratering, and concerns about local home prices emerged. More recently, economic conditions have been strong, stock values reached all-time highs, and the price of a typical home approached its previous high-water mark. Economies tend to work in […]
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The small city to the northeast of the Las Vegas Valley is the fastest growing city in the state, according to the latest Census data.
The North Las Vegas Police Department provided new information about the fatal police shooting of a man tied to a four-vehicle crash.
Daily highs around 110 and morning lows near 85 are forecast by the Las Vegas office of the National Weather Service from Saturday through Thursday.