Nevada ranks below the national average in emergency preparedness and health security, according to a report released Monday night by a New Jersey-based philanthropic organization.
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Washoe County reported the first confirmed case of Zika virus disease in Northern Nevada today, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the state up to three.
When University of Nevada School of Medicine student Shavon Moore found out she’d been accepted into a psychiatry residency program, she was excited.
The battle over maintaining life support for a 20-year-old Las Vegas woman continues this week in Reno. It focuses on the question of when is a person considered dead.
CARSON CITY — Researchers at Nevada’s medical school and University Medical Center in Las Vegas will share $8 million for projects and programs aimed at improving women’s health, thanks to a 2014 settlement with a major drug company, the attorney general’s office announced Wednesday.
Las Vegas High School teacher Stephanie Hill knows firsthand how critical early and intense intervention is for an autistic child to become a productive and functioning adult.
A new statewide coalition has been formed to get the country’s presidential candidates to focus on chronic disease as the real driver of increasing health care costs.
A squirrel found dead at Lake Tahoe last month has tested positive for the plague, health officials said, marking the latest incidence of the disease in California that forced the temporary closure of two Yosemite National Park campgrounds.
Nevada officials on Tuesday announced receiving an $11 million federal grant to expand mental health services for children.
Thousands of Nevada Medicaid patients may soon have to find new doctors.
Public health officials are investigating a case of E. coli at the Lovelock Correctional Center, the Nevada Department of Corrections said Thursday.
Laughlin residents and resorts no longer have to boil their water, the Las Vegas Valley Water District said Tuesday.
None of the 60 hospitals in Nevada met the standards for strong performance needed to make the U.S. News & World Report lists of Best Hospitals rankings for 2015-16.
People in homes and businesses in Laughlin, including the resorts along the Colorado River, were still required Monday to boil their tap water before drinking it or cooking with it.
State employees and covered family members in Nevada will have health coverage for gender reassignment and other transgender procedures under a new insurance policy that takes effect July 1.
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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.
The valley remains sunny, though it will be a little warmer with a high of 74 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
