Southern Nevada health officials publicly presented the first local multi-agency community health improvement plan Wednesday morning at the Clark County Government Center.
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Groups of mosquitoes across Clark County have tested positive for St. Louis encephalitis, a virus that largely causes limited or no symptoms in humans but can occasionally lead to serious health issues, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
A mobile clinic parked in Las Vegas this week is offering locals a chance to undergo free brain scans and help researchers better understand the brain.
As the Las Vegas Valley’s death toll rises from heroin use, a Henderson resident is working to help people escape the drug’s grip.
Sari Dennis’ mission is to help people bring their bodies back into balance. Dennis is a certified health and wellness counselor who studied at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and founded My Wellness Counts, mywellnesscounts.com, in 2010. Some clients bestow on her their own title.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Liberian expatriates, longtime Las Vegas churchgoers and service club members, educators and entrepreneurs are among Southern Nevadans who don’t need television images to visualize Ebola’s victims.
A young passenger who got sick Friday on a flight to Las Vegas and was quarantined for Ebola precautions upon landing was allowed to continue with his mother after any risk of the deadly virus was ruled out.
Southern Nevadans are invited to participate Saturday in Zumbathon for Community Health from 10 a.m. to noon at the West Career and Technical Academy at 11945 W. Charleston Blvd. in Las Vegas.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Surviving a car crash can feel like a miracle, but the process of putting together the pieces of one’s life does not end after the last stitch has been removed. Sunrise resident Scottie Briscoe, 52, survived such an accident, but she experienced intense back pain, until one day while picking up her grandson from the floor, her back snapped.
It’s been said that when a parent dies, you lose the past. When a child dies, you lose the future.
Tonya Rushing, the former clinic manager for Dr. Dipak Desai, has struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors in her health care fraud case stemming from the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.
The Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Summerlin Hospital Medical Center for eight violations linked to a fatal tuberculosis outbreak last year.
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