So far this year, the Nevada Department of Agriculture’s Animal Disease Laboratory has tested 61 bats and confirmed rabies in six of them, three from Clark County and three from Washoe County.
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The state agency that administers Medicaid announced this summer that it would soon limit patients to three therapy sessions before requiring them to obtain pre-approval for continuing treatment.
A recent study says Nevada has barely improved the ratio of physicians-to-residents, which is one of the highest in the nation, despite longstanding efforts to do so.
The Southern Nevada Health District’s Mosquito Surveillance Program found the mosquito carrying the virus in the 89122 zip code, near Clark County Wetlands Park in the southeast Las Vegas Valley
Officials are urging guests who stayed at Harrah’s Laughlin Hotel and Casino after Oct. 15, 2017 and developed pneumonia-like symptoms to report their illnesses to the Southern Nevada Health District.
Plans offered on the state’s health insurance exchange are expected to climb an average of 1.9 percent, while off-exchange plans will see an average 3.1 percent rate increase, the state’s Division of Insurance announced Tuesday.
The new UNR physician assistant program hopes to graduate its first class of 24 in 25 months, far quicker than new doctors can be trained.
The number of children in Nevada without health insurance was cut by more than half between 2011 and 2016, but the state’s rate of uninsured kids remains ninth highest in the U.S., according to a new report.
Steel boxes in Walgreens pharmacies are available during store hours for people to drop off unused pills for free, ensuring that the active ingredients don’t get into landfills, sewage systems or the wrong hands.
Stacy Perry, a 39-year-old mother of four in Las Vegas battling stage 4 colon cancer, says she “cried tears of joy” when President Donald Trump signed the bill on May 30. But her doctor says he doesn’t see much benefit from the bill.
From 2009 through 2016, the average price per private insurance claim rose 147 percent to $1,281, trailing only the costliest state of California, according to date compiled by the nonpartisan Health Care Cost Institute.
State’s rate of 32 deaths per 100,000 residents 65 and older is “very concerning,” says executive of the foundation that published the report.
As part of the national Stepping Up Initiative, Metropolitan Police Department officials are exploring new approaches to get low-level offenders into treatment instead of keeping them locked up.
The April 28 collection day was the 15th in the last eight years, according to the release. The next Take Back Day is scheduled Oct. 27.
Instead of the strict rules contained in draft regulations made public in January, the consequences for violations of the law would be left to the state medical board’s discretion, based on a prescriber’s “good faith attempts at compliance.”
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A woman died and a man was hospitalized after the car they were in was shot at by another vehicle, causing them to be ejected in the southwest valley, police said.
The valley will see more of the same Friday, with a high of 77 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
A man who died after he was pulled from a northwest Las Vegas house fire Thursday morning had been shot several times, police said.
Wesley Larsen, who was on his way home from a birthday party, died after the Sept. 5 collision near East Tropicana Avenue and South McLeod Drive.
