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Nevada wants $11.3M for Children’s Health Insurance Program

The state has requested $11.3 million in federal funding to continue the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers more than 27,500 Nevada kids, while Congress decides if it will renew funding for the decades-old program.

In Las Vegas and U.S., undocumented bear brunt of health care gap

As lawmakers debate how to make health insurance affordable and widely available, undocumented immigrants continue to inhabit a netherworld where health care is often available only in emergency rooms and nonprofit clinics.

 
Trump to nominate ex-drug executive as health secretary

President Donald Trump on Monday said he will nominate former pharmaceutical executive Alex Azar to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, saying Azar would push to lower the price of medicines.

House Democrats oppose raising entrance fee at national parks

Ninety House Democrats, including Reps. Ruben Kihuen, Jacky Rosen and Dina Titus, all of Nevada, signed a letter calling the scheme “misguided” and saying it would hurt local economies near the parks and low-income families.

 
Trump declares opioids a U.S. public health emergency

President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency Thursday in a packed East Room ceremony that highlighted his caring side.

Butterfly prompts Girl Scouts to close camp near Las Vegas

The Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada is abandoning its longtime camp in the mountains west of Las Vegas, in part because of restrictions placed on the property to protect the endangered Mount Charleston blue butterfly.

Nevada commits more than $1M to fight opioid epidemic

The state’s Interim Finance Committee on Thursday approved more than $1 million in expenditures for a five-point opioid initiative intended to fight abuse of prescription painkillers in Nevada.