The Southern Nevada Health District’s Mosquito Surveillance Program found the mosquito carrying the virus in the 89122 zip code, near Clark County Wetlands Park in the southeast Las Vegas Valley
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Steel boxes in Walgreens pharmacies are available during store hours for people to drop off unused pills for free, ensuring that the active ingredients don’t get into landfills, sewage systems or the wrong hands.
Stacy Perry, a 39-year-old mother of four in Las Vegas battling stage 4 colon cancer, says she “cried tears of joy” when President Donald Trump signed the bill on May 30. But her doctor says he doesn’t see much benefit from the bill.
From 2009 through 2016, the average price per private insurance claim rose 147 percent to $1,281, trailing only the costliest state of California, according to date compiled by the nonpartisan Health Care Cost Institute.
As part of the national Stepping Up Initiative, Metropolitan Police Department officials are exploring new approaches to get low-level offenders into treatment instead of keeping them locked up.
Clark County commissioners appeared frustrated Tuesday when representatives of WestCare, a national nonprofit addiction treatment group threatening to close its Las Vegas clinic, couldn’t answer questions about funding and care.
Dr. Kevin Menes, an emergency physician at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center who took patients in the aftermath of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, gave a keynote speech at the Emergency Nurses Association’s first regional symposium Thursday at Planet Hollywood Thursday.
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report released late Monday found Nevada was tied as the least prepared state in the nation for health disasters, including disease outbreaks, natural disasters and terrorism.
Influenza deaths in Nevada’s Clark County have risen to 26 for the year so far.
The three-year program, operated in partnership with the UNLV School of Medicine, will accept six new students annually.
The hospital will cut down on emergency room and inpatient beds, eliminate its intensive care unit and shrink its acute-care capabilities, including surgery, spokeswoman Jennifer Cooper said Thursday.
In Clark County, the virus had killed 10 people as of Jan. 6, including two children, and resulted in 476 hospitalizations, according to Southern Nevada Health District data.
It’s not too late to get your flu shot. And if you need a little incentive, know that Nevada is listed as one of 26 states with high flu activity this season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.