Nevada’s future is bright when it comes to HPV vaccination rates.
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Jason Mendelsohn was pondering a question during a financial exam in 2014 when his fingers grazed his neck, making him notice a bump he hadn’t felt before.
Amid a statewide health care shortage, the Southern Nevada Health District plans to begin offering primary care and dental services at its 280 S. Decatur Blvd. location.
Friends of the Winslows have partnered with Southern Hills Hospital and the nonprofit Chariot of Fire to host a hot air balloon fundraiser Saturday to help cover the costs of surgery and therapy for 4-year-old Lexi Winslow.
Dr. Kevin Menes, an emergency physician at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center who took patients in the aftermath of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, gave a keynote speech at the Emergency Nurses Association’s first regional symposium Thursday at Planet Hollywood Thursday.
The E. coli outbreak linked to tainted romaine lettuce has grown and sickened 84 people from 19 states, U.S. health officials said.
The Southern Nevada Health District updated its flu totals Monday for the season, raising the death toll by 22 to 48. That’s more than triple the 13 flu deaths confirmed during last’ year’s flu season.
Wongu University of Oriental Medicine, at 8630 S. Eastern Ave., is offering the services, plus a free tea sampling, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on a walk-in or appointment basis.
A national chain of nonprofit treatment centers is threatening to close its clinic for drug addicts and the mentally ill in Las Vegas by the end of May amid a funding dispute with state and Southern Nevada governments and hospitals.
Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo, a professor of clinical practices at UNLV, is also a volunteer with the Peter Emily International Veterinary Dental Foundation, a children’s book author and the reigning Ms. Nevada.
Indiana health officials are advising people to get vaccinated for hepatitis A if their summer plans include visits to Kentucky or Michigan.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs told Sen. Dean Heller on Thursday that he would not push for privatization of medical care for veterans and would meet with Nevada veterans if confirmed by the Senate.
The city of Las Vegas soon will launch a mobile crisis unit to respond to people with psychiatric emergencies, part of an ongoing push to connect residents with health care through paths that don’t always end at an emergency room.
At its second meeting Wednesday, the Governor’s Opioid State Action Accountability Task Force was told of progress being made in four key areas identified as priorities at the panel’s first meeting in September.
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