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Baby Kimmel’s heart defect is common, fixable with surgery

The hole-in-the-heart problem that plagues comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s newborn son is one of the most common heart-related birth defects, and it usually can be fixed with surgery.

UNLV using neuroscience to design rooms for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s patients

They’re moments when the design of a room and the objects in it become glaringly problematic for people suffering from health problems, and they’re the types of design gaps UNLV’s new master’s degree program in health care interior design hopes to resolve.

Number of mosquitoes carrying encephalitis jumps in Las Vegas

A sharp increase in mosquitoes carrying the St. Louis encephalitis virus has been identified by the Southern Nevada Health District’s Vector Surveillance Program.