UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine cited the speeding statistic as it announced a federal grant to study traffic-related injuries and deaths.
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The Clark County Fire Department and University Medical Center held a safety demonstration to show how improperly frying a turkey can cause burns or a fire.
After two ambulance companies consistently failed to meet required ambulance response times, Clark County approved a change to their contracts.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto visited Desert Springs Hospital, a mental health facility that will add 94 beds to expand its in-patient services.
The Southern Nevada Health District is calling attention to xylazine, an animal tranquilizer being increasingly linked to overdose deaths around the country.
President Joe Biden landed in Las Vegas on Tuesday evening and attended a private Democratic National Committee reception and fundraiser.
In a recent 17-month period, the two largest ambulance companies in Southern Nevada — AMR and MedicWest — have reached the 90 percent on-time contractual obligation with Clark County once and zero times, respectively.
Las Vegas officials envision the city’s two-decades-in-the-making medical district as a hub for health care into the future.
Last week, Clark County’s levels were designated as medium, and the week before that as high.
The individual, a man in his 30s who did not require hospitalization, was diagnosed in another state.
Clark County reported fewer hospitalizations from COVID-19 this week as vaccines began rolling out for children 6 months to 5 years old in Southern Nevada on Wednesday.
The U.S. outbreak of monkeypox has touched Clark County, with a presumptive positive case reported in a local man who recently traveled within the country, officials said Wednesday.
The Interior Department says Deb Haaland is isolating in Nevada where she took part in a roundtable discussion Tuesday about clean energy production on public lands.
Clark County’s case rate per 100,000 people, another key CDC metric, also increased this week from 86.07 to 110.69.
As cases of COVID-19 plummet, overall doses administered also are at their lowest point since the first week of vaccinations in mid-December 2020.