It’s the kind of place that, as a parent, you hope you never need to visit. But if you do, you’re awfully grateful it’s there. Nevada PEP — Parents Encouraging Parents — has been around for about 20 years, providing parents of children with disabilities with information and resources. It recently celebrated the move to its new location at 7211 W. Charleston Blvd.
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.
Signs in McCarran International Airport that advertise to tourists the shows they might want to attend in Las Vegas have been joined by a poster from the CDC that warns travelers about a MERS virus they should stay away from.
“In the past, we’ve had a backward way of testing for lead,” said Shawn Gerstenberger, the interim dean of the school of community health sciences at UNLV. “We test children, and if they test positive for lead, then we test the house.” Now thanks to a a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, UNLV is teaming with the city of Henderson to test for and remove lead from older homes.
A private psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas is stepping up to help mentally ill youth with a “very overdue” expansion to services.
Nevada’s largest mental health facility isn’t a treatment center at all.
Touro University senior provost and CEO Michael Harter, who helped found the school in 2004, recently announced his impending retirement.
