Vaccinations will be offered at Friday’s Pride parade in downtown Las Vegas and Saturday’s Pride festival in North Las Vegas.
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According to Metro, four out of the six drug overdoses were preliminarily identified as fentanyl overdoses.
Dr. George Peter Chambers engaged in “sexual improprieties that constitute sexual misconduct,” according to the Nevada licensing board.
Dr. Nicholas J. Vogelzang was known not just for his groundbreaking research but also for his generous bedside manner.
Fremont Public Health Center, an arm of the Southern Nevada Health District, is now open and offering primary care and family planning services.
As more people get the monkeypox vaccine, and as others develop immunity as a result of infection, health officials hope that outbreaks of the once-rare virus will get under control.
The Southern Nevada Health District recommends that everyone 6 months and older get this season’s flu vaccine.
“Monkeypox has not yet burst out of the population that it is most affecting,” men who have sex with men, an infectious disease expert said.
About 200 people gathered Wednesday at Chuck Minker Sports Complex to mark International Overdose Awareness Day and to remember those who lost their lives due to overdose.
“We are in control mode now,” a Southern Nevada Health District official said.
Las Vegas officials envision the city’s two-decades-in-the-making medical district as a hub for health care into the future.
The facility is being built to keep up with growth in the northwest valley, Centennial Hills Hospital CEO Sajit Pullarkat said.
Last week, Clark County’s levels were designated as medium, and the week before that as high.
Clark County has hit a milestone of 100 confirmed or probable cases of monkeypox, 99 of them in men, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
The Southern Nevada Health District announced Thursday that it had received nearly 3,000 additional doses of the monkeypox vaccine.
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