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The numbers, reflecting the first year of signups through the state’s new online marketplace, were down 7.4 percent from last year’s preliminary total of 83,600.
The Patient Protection Commission proposed by Gov. Steve Sisolak at the start of his term and established by the Legislature last spring now has its leadership and board.
Washington is poised to raise the legal age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes to age 21 with bipartisan support and a nod from Big Tobacco.
Nevadans who don’t qualify for Medicare or Medicaid or don’t have insurance through an employer are eligible for health insurance through the exchange, Nevadahealthlink.com.
The Interim Finance Committee of the Nevada Legislature on Friday approved funding for a statewide vaping and marijuana summit in the fall of 2020.
If regulators agree, the drug could become the first treatment specifically for dementia-related psychosis and the first new medicine for Alzheimer’s in nearly two decades.
For the study, published in November, the physicians reviewed sonogram data from 450 pregnant women who self-reported daily marijuana use.
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.
All three of the fatal cases were in people 65 or older, according to the health district’s weekly flu report. At this time last season, there had been only one death reported.
More than 2,000 Americans who vape have gotten sick since March, many of them teenagers and young adults, and at least 40 people have died.
U.S. health officials announced a breakthrough Friday into the cause of a mysterious outbreak of vaping illnesses, reporting they have a “very strong culprit.”
Three Nevada Board of Dental Examiners members resigned Thursday and two staffers were terminated after a Review-Journal investigation into the board.
Gov. Steve Sisolak said he won’t be intimidated or distracted by the Nevada dental board director sharing a anonymous letter that questions his links to critics of the agency.
Under the proposed project, the central business office in Henderson would be closed in favor of an expanded four-story facility in Symphony Park.
