At least one parent did not want to wait for tuberculosis testing by health officials, who are investigating potential exposures at over two dozens schools.
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Testing is beginning at more than a dozen schools to determine if the contagious and potentially fatal disease has spread.
A tuberculosis investigation is underway involving a person with active TB who was on 26 Clark County School District campuses and at a district training center.
An individual at the school has tested positive for the bacterial disease that can be transmitted between people in close proximity by breathing the same air over a period of time.
Nevada State University is accepting applications for a new graduate program designed to help address the need for school psychologists.
UNLV’s medical school is working to bring more physicians to Las Vegas to help fill the shortage or health care professionals and to help train more.
The latest variant of COVID-19, BA.2.86, was not found in Southern Nevada as of last week, according to wastewater data.
Groundbreaking research will be unveiled Thursday on how HIV enters cells, a discovery that could produce new treatments for AIDS and other diseases..
Six local teenagers discussed their mental health strategies and concerns as part of the Hope Means Nevada anti-suicide campaign.
The Southern Nevada Health District is offering immunization clinics so students can get vaccinated before the new school year begins Aug. 7.
UNLV is looking to expand its wastewater analysis program to detect drug use levels, as well as health threats like Candida auris.
The school-based health centers are located at the Clark County School District’s Family Support Center and Bailey Middle School in Las Vegas.
Southern Nevada graduating medical students celebrated their matches with residency programs Friday. But Nevada medical school deans fear a “brain drain.”
President Joe Biden landed in Las Vegas on Tuesday evening and attended a private Democratic National Committee reception and fundraiser.
The outbreak at Wayne Tanaka Elementary School in the southwest valley began around Jan. 27, according to the health district.