The Southern Nevada Health District strongly recommends that people wear masks in public indoor places and stay up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations.
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“I don’t look at the world in black and white,” said Dr. Fermin Leguen, who leads the Southern Nevada Health District.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked health care providers to be on alert for cases of measles and other infectious diseases in evacuees from Afghanistan.
With the county’s two mass vaccination clinics scheduled to close next month, health officials are looking for ways to get more newly eligible adolescents inoculated.
The woman, who has “not recovered” according to federal health officials, is one of six under investigation nationwide in connection with Johnson Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccination sites at Cashman Center and Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas began accepting some walk-ins 65 and up on Thursday to receive a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
A Henderson man credits an experimental treatment for COVID-19 with saving his life and his wife’s.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center have opened a center to provide monoclonal antibody treatments to patients with early COVID-19.
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.
The first presumptive case of COVID-19 in Nevada was announced on Thursday by the Southern Nevada Health District, while late Thursday a second Nevadan has tested positive in Washoe County.
Las Vegas is a special kind of resort city. On the inside, you get The Strip (and now, the Sphere); on the outside, you get the vast Mojave Desert with its nostalgic attractions. In the past, people visiting Las Vegas would do so with the phrase in mind: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” […]
The park near Bermuda Road and Pebble Road honors a Metropolitan Police Department sergeant who was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2006.
Officials broke ground in Las Vegas’ Historic Westside for a College of Southern Nevada facility designed to help people get into high-demand industries.
The tranquilizer xylazine has been detected in the local illicit drug supply, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
A joint traffic safety operation by the Nevada Highway Patrol and California Highway Patrol resulted in hundreds of drivers cited over Memorial Day weekend, authorities said.