The Southern Nevada Health District’s public health center in North Las Vegas is closed, the district announced in Friday.
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Work is afoot to increase the number of primary care physicians per capita in the state and the number of specialists to care for Nevadans.
Three more babies who attended a Chicago-area day care center are confirmed to have the measles, bringing the number of infant measles patients linked to the business to five, the Cook County Department of Public Health said Saturday.
An increase in the number of people killing themselves with guns makes Nevada one of five states with that depressing distinction.
Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health are participating in a new clinical trial investigating whether treating older individuals with a new drug, solanezumab, can delay memory decline in those who might be at risk to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
One of the confirmed cases of measles in the Las Vegas Valley has a similar genetic makeup to a strain that caused the Disneyland outbreak, Southern Nevada’s chief medical officer told a legislative panel Friday.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Vaccination, guns, celiac disease: The modern playdate comes with all sorts of landmines our parents may have never discussed.
With dozens of measles cases popping up in the United States, Americans are buzzing about vaccines once more — and some old fearful myths are resurfacing.
Roughly one in three people who took an online survey would prefer to risk an earlier death rather than take a pill every day to prevent heart disease.
In addition to a confirmed case of measles associated with Valley High School, another case of the respiratory disease has been confirmed in Southern Nevada, and four other suspected cases are being watched in the state, public health officials said Tuesday.
A day care center at a Southern California high school has been closed and more than a dozen infants placed under three-week quarantine after a baby was diagnosed with measles, a school district official said on Monday.
Heart disease is the number one killer of American women. It kills more than breast cancer, stroke and car accidents … combined. That is a staggering statistic.
President Barack Obama is urging parents to get their children vaccinated in the face of a measles outbreak that has infected more than 100 people in the United States.
Dr. David Malitz, an ophthalmologist at the Southwest Eye Institute in Las Vegas, says there have always been urban legends about what affects the eye, such as reading small print or now from reading on a computer screen and watching television for hours upon end.
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