A physician with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta testified Wednesday that she saw a nurse anesthetist charged in the hepatitis C outbreak improperly reuse a syringe months after the 2007 outbreak.
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Health inspectors who investigated the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas believe the transmission from an infected patient to uninfected patients in two separate procedure rooms occurred when open vials of the anesthetic propofol were transferred from one room to the next.
A private psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas is stepping up to help mentally ill youth with a “very overdue” expansion to services.
Nevada’s largest mental health facility isn’t a treatment center at all.
Mental health became a focus of the Nevada Legislature in a very personal way this session because of expelled Assemblyman Steven Brooks’ public difficulties.
When James began hearing voices, the unseen others would simply call his name. Then they began to feed his fears. James, now 19, thought people were following him to his Las Vegas high school. To avoid detection, he began leaving his house as early as 5:30 a.m.
The Review-Journal takes an in-depth look at Nevada’s broken system for helping those who have a mental illness and a new approach that could help ease the crisis.
One of the state’s leading insurers, Health Plan of Nevada, “acted in bad faith regarding its obligation to provide insurance coverage” to patients, a Clark County jury found Thursday.
CARSON CITY — While state senators visited a medical marijuana dispensary in Arizona on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief in the Nevada Supreme Court saying state law provides “no practical way” for residents to acquire medical marijuana.
Nevada health authorities might get a new tool to deal with mentally ill people who appear to be a danger to themselves or others: a court order committing them to outpatient care and regular medication.