The certified disaster life support center at Touro University fills a void in the Las Vegas Valley.
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The 253,000-square-foot addition will include 72 surgery and intensive care patient beds, a new pediatric cardiovascular unit and imaging and laboratory space.
Nevada health officials on Tuesday said a bill aimed at curtailing opioid overprescription will keep decision-making in the hands of physicians, not lawmakers.
The County Commission on Tuesday will consider joining states, cities and counties across the U.S. suing manufacturers and distributors of painkillers in an effort to recoup some of the expenses they have borne.
UNLV’s School of Medicine received a $234,443 state public safety grant to examine traffic-related injuries and deaths in Nevada, university officials said Wednesday.
As lawmakers debate how to make health insurance affordable and widely available, undocumented immigrants continue to inhabit a netherworld where health care is often available only in emergency rooms and nonprofit clinics.
The early results of a study by UNLV researchers raise questions about the current diagnosis model for post-traumatic stress syndrome, which says a person must have lived through a traumatic event or have a loved one who did.
It’s the time of year when local religious and nonprofit organizations host craft shows and bazaars to raise money for programs and events ranging from church missions to scholarships. For shoppers, that’s an invitation to hunt for handmade and crocheted items, jewelry, holiday decorations and religious items — not to mention the baked goods — far from crowded malls. Here is a list of organizations hosting charitable events into December.
The Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada is abandoning its longtime camp in the mountains west of Las Vegas, in part because of restrictions placed on the property to protect the endangered Mount Charleston blue butterfly.
After Dr. Timothy Dickhudt, a University Medical Center trauma surgeon, operated on Philip Aurich after the mass shooting in Las Vegas, he discovered that their families had connections in his native Minnesota.
Las Vegas-area hospitals are joining the list organizations that are working to help victims of the Oct. 1 mass shooting at Route 91 Harvest festival.
Southern Nevada hospitals and medical personnel were able to respond to the massive number of injuries from the Oct. 1 Las Vegas mass shooting and did not seek help from out-of-state, an official said Monday.
Diazepam, the anti-anxiety medicine prescribed for Las Vegas gunman less than four months before the mass shooting, has a deserved reputation as a Jekyll-and-Hyde drug, calming some and causing others to become more aggressive.
A Henderson doctor wrote a prescription for the drug diazepam for Stephen Paddock, 64 of Mesquite and he filled it the same day in Reno, according to a state Prescription Monitoring Program record obtained by the Review-Journal.
“From our patients’ wounds you could tell a high-powered weapon had been used,” said one trauma surgeon who spent five straight hours in surgery after Sunday night’s mass shooting.
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