Desert Pines is one of 16 schools operating as a Southern Nevada Health District vaccine clinic during early June, offering shots to all Nevadans 12 and older.
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Hundreds of students at the Clark County School District have been quarantined or isolated as a result of COVID-19 exposures or positives since in-person learning resumed.
Three Clark County teenagers have died from suicide in the first month of the school year — a time period that saw none last year — prompting growing concerns about the mental health of K-12 students among district leaders and advocates.
The Clark County School District has decided not to send its maintenance and custodial employees back to work at school sites after workers expressed concerns that they’ll be exposed to the novel coronavirus without adequate protection.
A Las Vegas elementary school informed parents Wednesday that a member of the “school family” has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
In Clark County, no one would say whether the child of a man who tested positive for the virus was a public or charter school student. In Northern Nevada, things were different.
Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a new plan to build a home for the UNLV School of Medicine that relies on $155 million in donor funds rather than $125 million in bonds.
The status keeps the school on its projected timeline to achieve full accreditation by the 2021-22 school year.
The UNLV School of Medicine has chosen University Medical Center trauma surgeon John Fildes to step into the role of interim dean.
In 2016, accidents like suffocation or drowning were the leading cause of unnatural child deaths in Nevada.
The plan, the third iteration of the building meant to house UNLV’s medical program, comes after big private donations sought for a grander edifice failed to materialize.
The inaugural class in the Valley Health System program is comprised of 10 residents in the family medicine program and 16 in the general surgery program.
The handheld units can help diagnose traumatic bleeding during transport and also communicate patient information to waiting emergency room doctors.
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