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Brain health awareness growing, but action lacking

A 2024 brain health survey revealed a gap between thinking about brain health and taking steps to reduce risk or slow the progress of memory issues.

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UMC can’t afford to help deaf with cochlear implants

Divine intervention could be what is needed to keep Anahi Hernandez and dozens of other Nevada children and adults from an unending sound of silence, now that officials at University Medical Center, the last hospital in the state to offer cochlear implants, have said it is has become financially impossible to continue the procedures.

Doctors defend colleague arrested on murder charge

After the arrest of Dr. Richard Teh last month on a murder charge for prescribing drugs to a patient who subsequently died, Dr. William Van Tobel sent an incensed email to fellow physicians in the Las Vegas Valley. “It is not just Richard Teh on trial for murder. We are all on trial,” he wrote.