Groundbreaking research will be unveiled Thursday on how HIV enters cells, a discovery that could produce new treatments for AIDS and other diseases..
Education
Southern Nevada graduating medical students celebrated their matches with residency programs Friday. But Nevada medical school deans fear a “brain drain.”
Dr. Deborah Kuhls, who was the medical director of UMC’s trauma unit on Oct. 1, 2017, has co-authored a study about lessons learned from the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
The smoke-free and tobacco-free campus policy will apply to all university buildings.
Nevada students entering the 12th grade will now be required to be vaccinated against meningitis before school begins.
At a time when anatomy increasingly is taught using interactive touch screens and models, Touro University’s leaders believe in the importance of learning by dissecting actual bodies, medicine’s centuries-old rite of passage.
The university and clinic have received five more years of funding from the National Institutes of Health to support Southern Nevada’s first Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.
New data and anecdotal reports in Clark County indicate that cases and hospitalizations involving kids with COVID-19 have increased sharply.
With the county’s two mass vaccination clinics scheduled to close next month, health officials are looking for ways to get more newly eligible adolescents inoculated.
Erica Stiles, a student at Touro University Nevada in Henderson, agreed to play a patient as part of a classroom ultrasound demonstration last year.