University Medical Center – the only Clark County hospital with a Level 1 trauma center – failed to follow county procedure the night of Oct. 1 when it called an “internal disaster” alert during a mass casualty incident.
Health
New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report says state’s amphetamine death rate could soon eclipse its prescription opioid death rate if current trends continue.
A psychologist and firefighter who survived 9/11 will lead free programs this week on fostering emotional well-being, aimed at helping survivors and others affected by the Oct. 1 shooting in Las Vegas.
State will be home to 64,000 people with the disease in 2025, an increase of more than 42 percent over the current total of 45,000, according to a new report from the Alzheimer’s Association.
Henderson oncologist Dr. Mary Ann Allison is preparing to put her long days caring for patients behind her, but before she does she has a few choice words about the growing demands on doctors.
Jacob Delgado says he was tackled, put into a headlock and sedated for no reason. David McCovy says he got slammed to the ground and punched in the eye. And Robby Risher died after intentionally driving his car into a concrete pole.
State officials have slapped Emper Ebiya, the owner of a filthy Las Vegas group home that housed severely mentally ill residents, with a $25,000 fine — the maximum penalty authorized by law.
Dee Wirth knows what it’s like to live on the street. She knows what it’s like to struggle with drugs and alcohol and feel powerless to change that. She also knows what it’s like to survive, recover and fight addiction with a vengeance.
Clark County’s health outcomes — based on residents’ longevity and how healthy they feel — fell to 10th among Nevada counties, down from sixth over the past three years, according to the 2018 County Health Rankings report.
Jeremy Renbarger, 26, went into cardiac arrest twice and doctors said he would likely spend the rest of his days in a vegetative state. Two weeks later, he walked out of the hospital.
Influenza deaths in Nevada’s Clark County have risen to 26 for the year so far.
In a health care world increasingly driven by profits, Nevada’s mentally ill patients are being cycled out of hospitals before they’re ready. In many cases they land right back in the hospital.
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin visited the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health on Friday to learn more about how the center’s research could one day help veterans living with chronic brain diseases.
Overall opioid-related overdose deaths have decreased slightly in Nevada since 2010, but data presented Thursday show that heroin and synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, are responsible for a sharply higher share of the deaths.
The complaint, filed in Washoe County District Court on Wednesday, alleges that the manufacturers and distributors of the anti-psychotic medication Abilify failed to warn patients and doctors of the side effects.
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