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Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday afternoon announced he has directed for immediate action to be taken on five recommendations that will help improve the state’s struggling mental health system on the short-term. The improvements will cost an estimated $3.5 million.
The city of Henderson is taking a different path toward licensing medical marijuana facilities, letting the state decide who is best qualified to operate dispensaries before applicants go before the City Council.
U.S. Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada is preparing a bill to cut red tape that hinders doctors at Nellis Air Force Base from treating veterans needing specialized care not available from the VA hospital in North Las Vegas.
After 9/11 and anthrax attacks, Las Vegas was the only major metropolitan area in the country without a public health laboratory within 100 miles. Officials completed the Southern Nevada lab in 2004, and finally showed reporters around Wednesday.
Elko County commissioners have passed an ordinance banning medical marijuana dispensaries from unincorporated areas of the Northern Nevada county.
More veterans are being allowed to obtain health care at private hospitals and clinics in an effort to improve their treatment following allegations of falsified records and delays in treatment.
The Southern Nevada branch of the Department of Veterans Affairs says it does not believe it is a target of misconduct investigations taking place across the country, and lawmakers from Nevada say they have not been told otherwise.
There are no good choices for Nevada as it tries to decide what do to about its troubled health insurance exchange, Gov. Brian Sandoval said. The governor said he’s frustrated by the position Nevada finds itself because of a botched online system developed by Xerox.
Jeffery Talbot, the director of the Research Center on Substance Abuse and Depression at Roseman University of Health Sciences in Henderson, is convinced that far too many suicides occur because currently available antidepressants take much too long to take effect, if they work at all.
A jury in northwest Arizona has awarded $300,000 to the plaintiff in a civil case involving a penile implant gone wrong.
Clark County has received 206 proposals to operate medical marijuana establishments from 109 companies jousting for a foothold in a new industry for Nevada.
The board of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange received fresh statistics on new members that have signed up so far in a 60-day special enrollment session that began April 1.
Final numbers from the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange show a flurry of private plan selections in the last days of open enrollment. The exchange’s Nevada Health Link reported that 41,823 Nevadans had chosen a qualified health plan as of Tuesday.
Many breast cancer survivors would tell you that the day they were diagnosed was the hardest day of their lives. For Brandi Ellis, a Las Vegas mother of three diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma in May 2020, the first thing she did was walk downstairs to tell her family — her “first line of defense,” as she calls them.
Las Vegas Valley residents gathered at Cafe Landwer in Las Vegas to celebrate the signing of a Mideast peace treaty and the release of Israeli hostages.
Aces’ star Jackie Young traded in her basketball uniform for a Raising Cane’s one, passing out orders of chicken fingers to fans on the Strip.
Las Vegas police are investigating a homicide Tuesday morning in the northwest valley.
The Las Vegas Valley saw some signs of fall as light showers and strong winds blew across the area. Temperatures dropped as well.
