The battle over maintaining life support for a 20-year-old Las Vegas woman continues this week in Reno. It focuses on the question of when is a person considered dead.
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CARSON CITY — Researchers at Nevada’s medical school and University Medical Center in Las Vegas will share $8 million for projects and programs aimed at improving women’s health, thanks to a 2014 settlement with a major drug company, the attorney general’s office announced Wednesday.
Las Vegas High School teacher Stephanie Hill knows firsthand how critical early and intense intervention is for an autistic child to become a productive and functioning adult.
A new statewide coalition has been formed to get the country’s presidential candidates to focus on chronic disease as the real driver of increasing health care costs.
A squirrel found dead at Lake Tahoe last month has tested positive for the plague, health officials said, marking the latest incidence of the disease in California that forced the temporary closure of two Yosemite National Park campgrounds.
Nevada officials on Tuesday announced receiving an $11 million federal grant to expand mental health services for children.
Thousands of Nevada Medicaid patients may soon have to find new doctors.
Public health officials are investigating a case of E. coli at the Lovelock Correctional Center, the Nevada Department of Corrections said Thursday.
Laughlin residents and resorts no longer have to boil their water, the Las Vegas Valley Water District said Tuesday.
None of the 60 hospitals in Nevada met the standards for strong performance needed to make the U.S. News & World Report lists of Best Hospitals rankings for 2015-16.
People in homes and businesses in Laughlin, including the resorts along the Colorado River, were still required Monday to boil their tap water before drinking it or cooking with it.
State employees and covered family members in Nevada will have health coverage for gender reassignment and other transgender procedures under a new insurance policy that takes effect July 1.
How did a Reno collections agent end up in collections himself? He bought coverage in 2014 through the state’s health insurance exchange.
State and federal health officials have launched an investigation after a worker at Zion National Park tested positive for tuberculosis.
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