The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services said there have been 14 deaths among patients this year.
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A new acute-care hospital in Henderson will specialize in providing cardiac care while adding needed capacity in the growing community, Valley Health System executives said following a ceremonial groundbreaking.
At a time when anatomy increasingly is taught using interactive touch screens and models, Touro University’s leaders believe in the importance of learning by dissecting actual bodies, medicine’s centuries-old rite of passage.
Jullie Hoggan, 49, has largely lived in isolation and apart from her family since a kidney transplant last year left her with a suppressed immune system.
St. Rose hospitals are the first in Southern Nevada to announce such a requirement.
Desert Springs Hospital worker Filbert John S. Aquino was remembered for trying protecting everyone: “He’d rather take the bullet.”
A Henderson man credits an experimental treatment for COVID-19 with saving his life and his wife’s.
On Thanksgiving of last year, Ashleigh Cope’s heart stopped. The then-22-year-old had contracted a flesh-eating bacterial infection that nearly killed her in the aftermath of minor cosmetic surgery.
Las Vegas intensive care nurse Geoconda Hughes discusses how the COVID-19 outbreak has made her question her career choice.
HealthCare Partners Nevada, a network of medical providers and clinics in Nevada, officially becomes Intermountain Healthcare this week.
Mosquitoes with the West Nile virus have made their first appearance of the summer in Clark County.
The disorder, known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome, has punctured the early belief that COVID-19 poses little risk for children.
A spokeswoman for the nonprofit blood service provider Vitalant said Thursday that there is a one-day supply of blood remaining in the region.
St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus and Southern Hills Hospital are using the blood plasma of recovered COVID-19 patients to give hope to current victims.
Vitalant, a nonprofit community blood provider, will collect plasma from those who have recovered to help people critically ill with the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus.
Quick quiz: What’s one of the safest beverages you can drink in Southern Nevada? If your answer is “tap water,” you’re right! Southern Nevada’s municipal water supply meets or surpasses all State of Nevada and Federal Safe Drinking Water Act standards. In fact, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) tests your water 300,000 times a […]
The Board of School Trustees decided on an Illinois-based search firm to recommend candidates for the office.
Researchers are looking for people in the Las Vegas Valley with loved ones who have the disease also known as juvenile diabetes.
Senior U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died after he was hit by a vehicle near the district courthouse in downtown Reno, the Reno Police Department said. He was 80.
The chef-owned spot drew on American, Mexican and European traditions for its menu of comfort food with a twist.