The state medical board has launched a new website designed to help Nevadans understand the impacts of using opioid-based medications.
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It’s an indoor smell that’s now foreign in most large U.S. cities: lingering cigarette smoke. Because of laws passed elsewhere in the past dozen years or so, Las Vegas is one of the nation’s largest cities that still allow smoking in bars and casinos.
Forty million adults have lost some hearing because of noise, and half of them suffered the damage outside the workplace, from everyday exposure to leaf blowers, rock concerts and other loud sounds, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday.
At the private practice where Susan VanBeuge works as a nurse practitioner, she and the practice’s physician complement each other. The physician, who often takes on a more clinical demeanor, introduces the nurse as the patient’s advocate and champion.
But some are concerned that focus on state’s opioid abuse problem, funding for the UNLV School of Medicine and an increase in Medicaid reimbursement to physicians could create new gaps in strained system.
People increasingly researching surgeons online and traveling to find the doctor who best suits them. That means local doctors are working to keep up with international trends and latest innovations.
Roughly 89,000 Nevadans signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchange for 2017, about 900 more than in the previous year. The jump occurred amid uncertainty over the fate of the legislation.
A fellowship program being developed at Touro University Nevada aims to put a dent in the doctor shortage locally while also providing more skillful care to Southern Nevada’s senior population.
If you feel like you’ve been “run over by a truck,” you’ve probably got the flu.
There’s something about an ocean breeze that does the soul good. That salty air, it turns out, can have more than just mental benefits.
University Medical Center officials plan to open a new urgent care facility in Enterprise, which could become the hospital’s busiest clinic.
University, health and city officials gathered for a town hall event Tuesday night looking forward to the development of the UNLV School of Medicine and the medical district surrounding it.
Health officials are reporting a surge in Southern Nevada flu cases so far this season, with double the number of hospitalizations and a 90 percent increase in reported cases compared to the same period last year.
At least one state lawmaker raised concern Tuesday about Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposal to shut down a youth psychiatric hospital in Southern Nevada.
At many airports, people can eat a giant candy bar, a cinnamon roll the size of a dinner plate or deep-fried delicacies. AtMcCarran International Airport, visitors and locals can work off some of those calories at Zero Level Fitness and Wellness.
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