Suicide ends lives, but it also creates new beginnings for those who attempt to kill themselves but live, and those who must find the will to go on without lost loved ones.
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An allegation of Medicaid fraud last year against Northwest Academy led state officials to temporarily suspend payments to the boarding school.
Nevada is asking a federal judge to amend a lawsuit so the state can force the federal government to remove a half metric ton of plutonium secretly shipped to the Nevada National Security Site last fall.
“More donations are urgently needed to replenish the blood supply and be prepared for patient emergencies,” the American Red Cross in Las Vegas said this week.
The Southern Nevada Health District on Thursday has confirmed a case of the measles in a visitor to Las Vegas who frequented Luxor and Mandalay Bay early this month.
BioLife Plasma Services on Saturday will open a new donor center in Henderson, its first in Nevada.
If successful, it would be the first change to U.S. cigarette warnings in 35 years. Nearly 120 countries have such warnings.
Nonprofit says it found “process gaps” in its documentation of donated organs in April and alerted the association that accredits the nation’s eye banks, leading to the action.
The number of hepatitis A cases in Clark County continues to climb, with 83 cases and one death reported in 2019.
The governor opens a two-day summit in Las Vegas that aims to let stakeholders “review the successes and learn what partners are doing in this fight for Nevada communities.”
Montevista Hospital — one of Southern Nevada’s biggest psychiatric facilities — will be cut off from Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement and is barred from accepting new patients.
The UNLV School of Medicine has chosen University Medical Center trauma surgeon John Fildes to step into the role of interim dean.
The Southern Nevada Health District is reporting four new cases of West Nile virus, bringing the total in Clark County for 2019 to 16.
The Philippines recorded 146,062 cases of dengue from January through July 20 this year, 98% more than the same period in 2018.
The Southern Nevada Health District on Tuesday confirmed a 12th case of West Nile virus, putting the county on pace for one of the worst years for the mosquito-borne illness since it was first detected here in 2004.
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