Pfizer will pay Nevada $9.5 million to resolve the state’s claims that Pfizer and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals unlawfully promoted certain postmenopausal hormone therapy medications and misled Nevada consumers and doctors about the safety and effectiveness of those drugs, Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Monday.
An additional 14 triage beds are now available for the mentally ill in Southern Nevada.
Health care options are expanding in the Las Vegas Valley thanks to Touro University Nevada, which expanded its health clinic and added a new active aging center this year.
A passion for Liberia and the plight of its people drove Ashoka Mukpo to work there, first to aid relief efforts and then as a photojournalist to tell its story.
There has to be a better way, particularly in this powerful digital information age.
An increasing number of wounded war vets is pushing military medicine to find better ways to accommodate such a large population of young, severely disabled combat veterans who want to maintain an active lifestyle.
Linda Rolain, a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against Xerox, died Monday, less than two weeks after her family went public with details about Nevada Health Link enrollment troubles that kept her from treatment in January for an aggressive brain tumor.
Health officials confirmed the first case of an American infected with a mysterious virus that has sickened hundreds in the Middle East.
A Swedish doctor says four women who received transplanted wombs have had embryos transferred into them in an attempt to get pregnant. He would not say on Monday whether any of the women had succeeded.
A pediatric patient was among three new flu-related deaths reported by the Southern Nevada Health District Monday.
The more you talk with MountainView Hospital nurses, the more troubled you become.
Hold your nose and don’t spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people’s poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do “fecal transplants.”
Companies vying for a stake in the fast-growing electronic cigarette business are reviving the decades-old marketing tactics the tobacco industry used to hook generations of Americans on regular smokes.
A 60-year-old woman has fallen severely ill from the West Nile virus, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama’s administration unexpectedly announced a one-year delay, until after the 2014 elections, in a central requirement of the law that medium and large companies provide coverage for their workers or face fines.
“It’s just heartbreaking,” said Judy Roman, whose houseboat was totaled and whose security camera recorded the fire.
Dennis and Ashley Prince had a young baby together before they were killed in early April, and the child is now the center of another guardianship dispute.
Diaja Smith and Jacoby Robinson face murder and child abuse charges. They were arrested after their son’s body was found in a dumpster near downtown Las Vegas.
A rodeo bull hopped a fence surrounding an Oregon arena and ran through a concession area into a parking lot, officials said.
