An expert on Ebola told a Nevada panel of public health officials Wednesday that the virus has virtually no chance of becoming a health care crisis in the United States despite the number of headlines the pathogen is grabbing across the country.
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Behind the doors of an unremarkable building in an older part of town, there is a woman who has given birth more than 1,000 times, a man who regularly fakes post-traumatic stress disorder and a storage room with stacks of babies. It’s just another day at the office for the staff of the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas.
Public health officials in Southern Nevada have designated hospitals where emergency medical teams should take patients fitting the Ebola profile, but the region’s chief medical officer won’t say where those facilities are.
Dr. Dale Carrison, chief of staff of University Medical Center, and Dr. Joseph Iser, chief medical officer of the Southern Nevada Health District, are the Las Vegas area members of a task force charged with planning for the possibility of a person with the Ebola virus coming to Nevada, state Department of Health and Human Services officials announced Wednesday.
Some Southern Nevada doctors are prescribing different drugs to meet their patients’ need for pain relief after federal officials changed the classification of a widely prescribed medication.
Las Vegas HEALS has honored six physicians, including Dr. J.D. McCourt, recognized for a new protocol he developed for ER patients needing dialysis.
Las Vegas police say they are investigating two local doctors who may have been involved in a woman’s death.
The chief medical officer of a Las Vegas company could be meeting within days with the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about a monitoring device that could be a pivotal tool in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus.
Patients in pain worry they might have trouble filling their prescriptions because of the new federal rules for painkillers.
Everybody affected by cancer has a story, and sometimes they tell that story with a tattoo rather than words.
A young passenger who got sick Friday on a flight to Las Vegas and was quarantined for Ebola precautions upon landing was allowed to continue with his mother after any risk of the deadly virus was ruled out.
Southern Nevadans are invited to participate Saturday in Zumbathon for Community Health from 10 a.m. to noon at the West Career and Technical Academy at 11945 W. Charleston Blvd. in Las Vegas.
McCarran International Airport is not on the list of five U.S. airports where the government plans to begin taking the temperatures of travelers from West Africa as part of a stepped-up response to the Ebola epidemic.
Questions about travel with an emphasis on any recent visit to West Africa have increased in priority in Southern Nevada emergency rooms because of concerns about the Ebola virus.
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