Nevada’s health insurance exchange disputes a federal report claiming it misallocated funds for creating its program and recommending it consider refunding $893,000 to the Centers Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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A steady stream of pickets marched along the sidewalk Thursday evening in front of Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, drawing honks while shouting “Sunrise sucks.”
On the frontline of Brazil’s fight against Zika, Vandson Holanda sends Roman Catholic volunteers into the poorest areas of this city, showing residents how to protect themselves against mosquitoes that carry the virus linked to birth defects.
If you expect to pay more for health care in 2016, you’re in the majority. According to our poll responses, 43 percent of Americans expect to pay more for health insurance this year.
Don’t let the coughing, sneezing and fevers fool you. This year’s flu season in Clark County has been mild so far.
Long gone are the days of keg stands and Solo cups filled with beer for the exuberant millennial generation.
The healthcare industry is constantly making new breakthroughs and reporting important facts on studies. And today, our neighbors, moms or friends may weigh in with what they think or something they read online. When we are bombarded with so many mixed messages, it is hard to know what to believe these days.
The Zika virus may be particularly adept at entrenching itself in parts of the body that are shielded from the immune system, making it harder to fight off and possibly lengthening the timeframe in which it can be transmitted, top U.S. experts said on Friday.
When you’re choosing a cereal for your kids, dietitians say, you should always be mindful of one word: sugar.
A minister in the Philippines has urged women to delay pregnancy until more is known about the mosquito-borne Zika virus raging in Latin America, even though the Asian country’s only reported case of Zika was four years ago.
A contract dispute between a major hospital operator and a health care coalition in Southern Nevada could affect more than 275,000 people.
Two more cases of norovirus were confirmed in people who visited a Buffalo Wild Wings Inc restaurant in Kansas, but the source of the illness could not be identified, a spokeswoman for the state health department’s county office said.
The UNLV School of Medicine is one step closer to recruiting its first class of students.
The World Health Organization on Wednesday advised women in areas with the Zika virus, especially during pregnancy, to cover up against mosquitoes and practice safe sex but also reassured them that most would give birth to “normal infants.”
President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $1.8 billion in emergency funding that would in part fund an expedited effort to develop a Zika vaccine, but even with presidential power and funding, a vaccine could still be awhile.
