The Southern Nevada Harm Reduction Alliance put on its first International Overdose Awareness Day to remember friends and family members who died from addiction.
Health
A woman over the age of 50 is the second person in Clark County to contract West Nile virus this year, the Southern Nevada Health District said Thursday.
Nevada’s Brian Sandoval is part of a bipartisan group of governors urging Congress to retain the federal health care law’s individual mandate while seeking to stabilize individual insurance markets as legislators continue work on a long-term replacement law.
A new study finds that children born to parents in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are half as likely to have mental health issues than children of undocumented immigrants.
Dignity Health — St. Rose Dominican Hospital’s Siena and Rose de Lima campuses are among the Las Vegas Valley locations where new mothers are now being screened for anxiety. Like postpartum depression, it can affect a new mother’s daily life.
We asked H.L. Greenberg, a board-certified dermatologist in Las Vegas, about hair loss.
Registration is open for teams and individuals who want to join the 2017 Las Vegas Heart & Stroke Walk, which kicks off at 8 a.m. Sept. 30 at the Fremont Street Experience.
Nevada’s Medicaid program, caught in the political crossfire over rising health-care costs, is far different than the limited federal-state health insurance partnership for the “deserving poor” that President Lyndon Johnson unveiled in 1965.
Because of Dr. Geoffrey Sher’s expertise, more than 18,000 children have been born.
UNLV School of Medicine’s first white coat ceremony was as much about recognizing founding Dean Barbara Atkinson as it was about the charter class.
A new type of medical facility is popping up in Las Vegas neighborhoods: a combination of a hospital, a place to get specialty care and an urgent care center.
The state fared worst on access to health care through primary care doctors and insurance availability, earning an “F” in the report by the Nevada Medical Center.
What medical researchers have found is nothing for Nevada to be proud of: There are about 251 physicians for every 100,000 people in the United States but Nevada doesn’t quite hit 200.
Johnson & Johnson on Monday was ordered by a California jury to pay $417 million to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using the company’s talc-based products like Johnson’s Baby Powder for feminine hygiene.
A clinic that’s about to open within the Sumerlin Medical Building is aimed at taking a proactive approach by discovering diseases that might lie in wait for patients.
Dental implants can have a huge impact – for Glenn and Debbie, they were a dream come true. Glenn was like so many people suffering through nagging discomfort and continual issues with their teeth. After years of suffering and no clear path to relief, Glenn finally met someone else with the same issues and found […]