The district is standing behind its face mask policy for the new school year — at least for now — despite calls from local and national health officials for stricter rules.
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The weeklong camp, which started in 2019 but skipped last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, aims to inspire students to pursue a career in nursing.
The Southern Nevada Health District is holding a series immunization clinics for incoming kindergartners throughseventh-graders before school starts next month.
Desert Pines is one of 16 schools operating as a Southern Nevada Health District vaccine clinic during early June, offering shots to all Nevadans 12 and older.
The health sciences university acquired a three-story building off Town Center Drive and the 215 Beltway.
With the county’s two mass vaccination clinics scheduled to close next month, health officials are looking for ways to get more newly eligible adolescents inoculated.
About 36 percent of graduates are staying in Nevada for their residencies. The medical school is hoping to build that pipeline to address the state’s physician shortage.
Hundreds of students at the Clark County School District have been quarantined or isolated as a result of COVID-19 exposures or positives since in-person learning resumed.
The CEO of THT Health, the Clark County teachers union’s self-administered health insurance plan, submitted his resignation Sunday amid a “challenging financial situation.”
A Summerlin private school is the first in the world using a device that is capable of detecting COVID-19 through noninvasive testing, according to school officials and the device’s manufacturer.
Students found out Friday where they’ll complete a residency for the next three to seven years in their chosen speciality.
As adults wrangle with pandemic fatigue, their kids — and their teachers — are doing the same as they navigate the ins and outs of distance learning.
The first day of school is always fraught with emotion, but Monday’s return to the classroom is expected to bringing an added dimension to the usual anxieties, experts say.
The school, which will graduate its first class of students in May, announced Friday that it has been fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
Access to immunizations is merely the newest public health predicament faced disproportionately by people of color.