Two years ago, Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary penned a Wall Street Journal piece, “How to Stop Hospitals from Killing Us,” which contained a paragraph that was at once sickening and a call to action.
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Members of Congress took steps last week to reduce the $1.4 billion that the Pentagon wants to strip from the nation’s military commissaries to save money, and active duty personnel and military retirees who buy groceries at the Nellis Air Force Base commissary share their point of view: The government must fulfill the promise it made when they signed up to serve the nation in time of need.
It’s been awhile since McCarran International Airport has welcomed a new overseas air carrier to town so expect the smiles to be a little broader when Edelweiss Air’s first flight touches down and passes through a celebratory water arch early Monday afternoon.
The 9-year-old college, tucked into an office park on Sunset Road, espouses having students taught by those employed in their respective fields.
Almost half the students attending public schools are minorities, yet fewer than 1 in 5 of their teachers is nonwhite, according to new studies that cite a “diversity gap” at elementary and secondary schools in the United States.
Republican congressional hopeful Niger Innis last week faced friendly fire from a one-time supporter during a debate with his GOP primary opponent, Assemblyman Cresent Hardy, R-Mesquite, and she suffered the consequences.
A man was hit by a car Sunday evening on the southeast side of the Las Vegas Valley, police said.
A bungled execution in Oklahoma outraged death-penalty opponents, invited court challenges and attracted worldwide attention. But the inmate’s agony alone is highly unlikely to change minds about capital punishment in the nation’s most active death-penalty states
Like the cannons she’ll be firing in field artillery training this summer, UNLV student Camille Castro has her sights set high for being among the first women to integrate the officer ranks of an Army combat arms unit.
As Afghans observed a day of mourning Sunday for the hundreds of people killed in a horrific landslide, authorities tried to help the 700 families displaced by the torrent of mud that swept through their village.