A UNLV public health expert says that metric is not helpful in combating the outbreak and would require manpower needed elsewhere.
Health
Four more flu deaths have been reported in Clark County, bringing the season total up to 35 deaths, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
Nevada’s top medical official says it’s a matter of when, not if, the coronavirus appears in Nevada.
In Twitter post, the nation’s top doctor says the masks don’t protect from coronavirus and other airborne pathogens and a shortage could endanger health care workers.
Six people have now died from coronavirus in Washington state, health officials said Monday.
Las Vegas resident Hanna Olivas, who emerged as a right-to-die advocate following her blood cancer diagnosis, has created a nonprofit to assist others living with the disease.
The federal ban on fruit and mint flavored e-cigarette cartridges announced on Thursday exempts most of the products Nevada’s vape shops sell, an industry spokesman said.
For the study, published in November, the physicians reviewed sonogram data from 450 pregnant women who self-reported daily marijuana use.
With the severity of his heart condition unknown, it’s too soon to say when — or even if — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders might return to the campaign trail.
The Immunization Action Coalition has added Henderson Hospital to its honor roll for the hospital’s high rate of administering hepatitis B vaccinations in newborns.
Anthony Brasich, 71, is the first patient in the world to participate in Phase I clinical trials of an experimental drug called ARV-110.
This year’s flu season is shaping up to be less severe than last, according to data from the Southern Nevada Health District, which show there have been no deaths linked to the flu so far.
A video of a swaddled baby, hooked up to breathing tubes, his tiny fingers and toes poking out from underneath a wrap, leads the homepage of the Every Baby Counts Nevada campaign site.
Brenda Occhipinti lost her 12-year-old son, Carlo Jr., to the flu last year. The terrible loss has opened her eyes to the risks of leaving children unvaccinated, and she made sure his surviving siblings all got their shots this year.
Instead of the strict rules contained in draft regulations made public in January, the consequences for violations of the law would be left to the state medical board’s discretion, based on a prescriber’s “good faith attempts at compliance.”
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