U.S. health officials are expanding their checks of international travelers for signs of a worrisome new virus from China, even as they say the risk to Americans so far is very low.
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At least 12 Clark County dentists have had repeated lawsuits and discipline by the Nevada Board of Dental Examiners after making serious mistakes. But the dentists retain active licenses to practice.
In 2016, accidents like suffocation or drowning were the leading cause of unnatural child deaths in Nevada.
The inaugural class in the Valley Health System program is comprised of 10 residents in the family medicine program and 16 in the general surgery program.
First lady Melania Trump will visit Las Vegas on Tuesday for a town hall meeting on opioid abuse that will conclude a three-state tour to promote her “Be Best” initiative.
Nevada health officials said Wednesday they are fixing widespread problems with how the state distributed millions of dollars in federal crime victim assistance grants, errors that were uncovered in a U.S. Department of Justice audit this week.
The open enrollment period for Medicare recipients to switch or enroll in a new prescription drug plan or change their coverage from traditional Medicare to a privately run Medicare Advantage plan and vice versa ends Dec. 7.
Clark County ranked in the top 20 U.S. counties for sexually transmitted diseases in 2016, while Nevada as a whole came in No. 2 in the nation for its rate of syphilis, according to new federal data released this week.
Nevada’s Medicaid program, caught in the political crossfire over rising health-care costs, is far different than the limited federal-state health insurance partnership for the “deserving poor” that President Lyndon Johnson unveiled in 1965.
State officials will spray mosquito control chemicals in a North Las Vegas neighborhood Saturday after mosquitos capable of carrying the Zika virus were detected for the second time since May.
For the first time, the federal government is proposing cutting the nicotine level in cigarettes so they aren’t so addictive.
A central figure in the Senate effort to repeal and replace Obamacare — Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada — said Wednesday that he does not see a compromise on that legislation that could muster a GOP consensus by week’s end.
Health care legislation before the U.S. Senate could cost Nevada half its federal Medicaid funding and leave one-quarter of the state’s adult residents under 65 without health insurance, according to a new analysis.
The Silver State Health Exchange has no carriers lined up for 2018 that are willing to offer insurance to Nevadans in 14 rural counties, state officials said Thursday.
Jeffrey Klein, CEO of Nevada Senior Services, says Las Vegas already needs more than the two nonprofit adult day-care facilities where baby boomers drop off older loved ones or are dropped off themselves.
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