It was April of his freshman year. Ben Yeager woke up on a couch in a dark basement not sure where he was and how and when he got there, he wrote in a powerful personal essay for The Washington Post.
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy visited the Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday on the first stop of his national campaign to promote walking and walkable communities.
A collection of biological codes sits in a library at UNLV. Much of the focus is learning how the codes can help cells fight off HIV. Researchers hope this work can be used to develop drugs much faster.
With the new school year just around the corner, parents often are faced with a daunting list of things to do to help their children get ready to go back to the classroom.
What to expect when you’re expecting can be overwhelming.
More than 65,000 students in New York City’s poorest-performing public schools will have their vision screened and, if needed, get a free pair of eyeglasses, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.
It’s the kind of place that, as a parent, you hope you never need to visit. But if you do, you’re awfully grateful it’s there. Nevada PEP — Parents Encouraging Parents — has been around for about 20 years, providing parents of children with disabilities with information and resources. It recently celebrated the move to its new location at 7211 W. Charleston Blvd.
Kids who suffer a concussion worry about their academic skills in the weeks afterward, and older kids and those with more severe symptoms seem to worry the most.
Southern Nevada is in relatively rarified air with two medical schools being created in such close proximity. Officials at Roseman University of Health Sciences and UNLV are part of a new era of medical school expansion in the United States, a growth spurt not seen since the late 1960s and ’70s.
Does full-day kindergarten improve children’s health? That’s the big question UNLV health sciences researchers plan to examine. Researchers are partnering with the Kansas Health Institute to create a health impact assessment that will inform how possible state legislative changes to full-day kindergarten could impact children’s health.