Look west from the Las Vegas Valley these days and you’ll see winter has arrived: Mount Charleston has snow.
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About a week after the largest-ever open-enrollment day for Affordable Care Act coverage, federal health officials are reporting a year-to-year enrollment increase, with states including Nevada posting an uptick.
Enrollment for January health-care coverage through the healthcare.gov website has been extended through Monday nationwide due to demand, the director of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange said late Thursday.
Popular backcountry skiing and snowboarding areas in the Reno area are being threatened by avalanches.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday released new state data detailing how the Affordable Care Act has resulted in “substantial improvements in health care for all Americans.”
Nevada is expected to receive nearly $300,000 in a multistate settlement with a pharmaceutical company accused of marketing a drug to patient groups for which they didn’t have federal approval and mischaracterizing the drug’s risks.
Clark County health officials warned Southern Nevadans on Monday about an uptick in the number of flu cases reported this season and encouraged everyone to get vaccinated after a surge of cases in Northern Nevada.
As insurance companies nationwide look for ways to cut costs, commissions for individual plans have been reduced and in some cases eliminated.
A dearth of hospitals and medical professionals, an increasingly strained emergency care network and sharply escalating costs are threatening the quality of life in many of the state’s small towns and communities.
Roughly 300,000 Nevadans in small towns like Tonopah or rural communities are facing a dearth of hospitals or other medical care facilities.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval told the state dental board to address problems with its patient-complaint-resolution process at a heated meeting on Tuesday in which dental professionals accused the regulators of corruption, bullying and extortion.
A new type of heart surgery that uses a tiny clip to mend leaking valves has arrived in Nevada.
The online Silver State Health Insurance Exchange allows users to compare plans and identify available tax credits and subsidies.
Little more than a speck of evidence remains of Black Rock City. Where about 70,000 people rode lobster-shaped cars, danced witch-like in the moonlight and set up camp for a week straight, now there is only dust.
Heavy-duty prescription painkillers like hydrocodone and OxyContin are a big part of medicine in Nevada, with doctors prescribing them at a rate that nearly reached one per person last year.
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