New omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1, believed to be better at evading immunity from natural infection and vaccination, is on the rise in Clark County, a health official said.
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The fair at Pearson Community Center will focus on physical, mental and spiritual well-being. It will also have activities for kids.
The smoke-free and tobacco-free campus policy will apply to all university buildings.
The BA.2 variant has triggered a significant uptick in cases in the U.K and elsewhere, and its growing prevalence in the U.S. has created concern among public health authorities.
The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America will host a free online educational conference for Nevada residents on April 6 from 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
After eliminating incentive pay for overtime last month, University Medical Center is now reimposing a requirement that nurses work mandatory overtime.
At a time when anatomy increasingly is taught using interactive touch screens and models, Touro University’s leaders believe in the importance of learning by dissecting actual bodies, medicine’s centuries-old rite of passage.
“I don’t look at the world in black and white,” said Dr. Fermin Leguen, who leads the Southern Nevada Health District.
The university and clinic have received five more years of funding from the National Institutes of Health to support Southern Nevada’s first Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.
The goal of a new initiative is to change the statistic that half of women will be diagnosed with a neurological disorder in their lifetime.
Just as the omicron wave of COVID-19 cases showed signs of receding, the state’s first case of a worrisome new variant known as BA.2 was spotted in Southern Nevada.
“There were just days where you felt like you were a chicken running with your head cut off,” traveling nurse Lauren Meadows said about her contract in Las Vegas.
As the FDA halts the use of Regeneron and Eli Lilly treatments for COVID-19, the supply remains scarce of a newer drug from GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology.
Julia Kidd, a nurse at UMC, sought an exemption from the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate based on her pagan beliefs. Her request was denied and she was suspended.
Staffing at Clark County hospitals has been stretched thin during the COVID-19 pandemic. A health official said that as of Thursday, 300 employees were out sick at the three Las Vegas-area HCA hospitals.
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Celine Dion told her documentary audience, “This is by far the biggest crowd I’ve had in years. I hope to see you all again very, very soon.”
NSHE acknowledged concerns from the Jewish community about comments made by a regent who serves as vice chair of the board’s diversity committee.