Route 91 Harvest festival survivors struggled with mental health ailments years after the mass shooting on the Strip, according to a Boston University-led study.
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Nevada State University is accepting applications for a new graduate program designed to help address the need for school psychologists.
The school-based health centers are located at the Clark County School District’s Family Support Center and Bailey Middle School in Las Vegas.
Jackie DeSouza-Van Blaricum, the new president of HCA Healthcare Far West Division, began the job in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Nevada already is seeing some patients from states where abortions have been restricted, abortion advocates say.
The voluntary program began Jan. 19 — the day classes resumed after the school district’s five-day “pause” — for those exposed in a school setting to a confirmed COVID-19 case.
Nevada residents can now access their vaccination records online, the state announced Wednesday.
As demand for COVID-19 testing soars, people with mild symptoms – or none at all – are crowding already busy Las Vegas-area emergency rooms to be tested for the coronavirus.
The Helmsley Charitable Trust, a national philanthropic organization largely focused on health initiatives and grants, awarded the grants to Nevada hospitals as part of its rural healthcare program.
Last year’s flu season was extremely mild, as COVID-19 mitigation measures also impacted the viral disease. But there are some warning signs that this year may be different.
Updated figures from the Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus website brought totals in the state to 394,595 cases and 6,583 deaths.
Nevada on Thursday reported 350 new coronavirus cases and six new deaths, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The CEO of THT Health, the Clark County teachers union’s self-administered health insurance plan, submitted his resignation Sunday amid a “challenging financial situation.”
The facility at the Las Vegas Convention Center will have the capacity to administer more than a thousand vaccines each day, public health officials say.
Thos 16 and older will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine next week in Nevada, one of several states to open up access to the coronavirus vaccine.