Wait times for appointments at VA mental health clinics in the Las Vegas area were altered, according to a complaint in 2013, months before a national scandal erupted over similar practices at a VA hospital in Arizona.
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About a week after the largest-ever open-enrollment day for Affordable Care Act coverage, federal health officials are reporting a year-to-year enrollment increase, with states including Nevada posting an uptick.
In its first policy statement on donor human milk, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises against using internet-based or informal human milk sharing.
Jim Henry, a retired Air Force security policeman, has had two heart attacks and is doing all he can to prevent a third. He’s changed his diet, and taken up new hobbies, including model railroading.
The surgeon who created the life-saving Heimlich maneuver for choking victims died early Saturday in Cincinnati. Dr. Henry Heimlich was 96.
Enrollment for January health-care coverage through the healthcare.gov website has been extended through Monday nationwide due to demand, the director of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange said late Thursday.
Connecticut and 19 other states, including Nevada, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against generic drug makers saying they entered into illegal conspiracies that raised prices on two common generic drugs.
The city of Las Vegas could reap major benefits from a tax on sugary beverages, including about $25.2 million in revenue, according to a report published Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday released new state data detailing how the Affordable Care Act has resulted in “substantial improvements in health care for all Americans.”
On a “bittersweet day” that brought back memories of loved ones lost, President Barack Obama signed into law legislation that makes new investments in cancer research and battling drug abuse.
Henderson resident Douglas Cox has been a performer, an administrator and a motivational trainer — the man that President-elect Donald J. Trump used to motivate his employees to do their best. He now has a message for people 50-100: Remember that what you do is important every day of your life.
One in four non-elderly adults has a medical condition, ranging from diabetes to pregnancy to severe obesity to arthritis, that would make them uninsurable under the health coverage rules that prevailed before the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study.
Partnership between FirstMed Health and Wellness and Hope for Prisoners aims to ease the burdens associated with re-entry to society and lower offenders’ odds of landing back behind bars.
Hundreds of locals and tourists cleared their schedules Friday to celebrate the kickoff of the ski and snowboarding season Friday at Lee Canyon, a ski resort near Mount Charleston.
Nevada is expected to receive nearly $300,000 in a multistate settlement with a pharmaceutical company accused of marketing a drug to patient groups for which they didn’t have federal approval and mischaracterizing the drug’s risks.
