Controversy has swirled around the question all year. Lacking a national coronavirus death definition, state officials created their own.
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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Sunday praised Southern Nevada for progress it has made against COVID-19, while stressing the community will need to remain vigilant to reopen safely and return to greater normalcy.
State and county health officials are releasing a large amount of COVID-19 data every day. Here are tips to make sense of confusing numbers.
Laughlin residents may get tested for the coronavirus on a first-come, first-served basis Thursday at Laughlin Junior/Senior High School, according to Clark County.
After a year, the hepatitis A outbreak in Clark County is over, the Southern Nevada Health District announced Friday.
The 12 new cases was the lowest overnight increase reported since the early days of the outbreak of the disease in Nevada. State numbers also were well below average.
University Medical Center recently began prescribing hydroxychloroquine to high-risk emergency room patients who test positive for COVID-19 but do not require immediate hospitalization.
Dental emergencies as defined by the ADA include having a tooth knocked out, a broken or injured jaw, swelling or bleeding gums and severe pain.
Eleven people died of the flu in Clark County during the last week in January, bringing the seasonal total to 24, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
The number of flu deaths has climbed to 11 in Clark County this season after five new deaths reported since last week, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
Montevista Hospital — one of Southern Nevada’s biggest psychiatric facilities — will be cut off from Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement and is barred from accepting new patients.
The Healthy Start program targeted at-risk communities in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, providing support before and during pregnancy and up to two years after childbirth.
Billing itself as “the largest community-based population health study in the world,” the Healthy Nevada Project research project already has enrolled more than 35,000 volunteers since it launched in Washoe County in late 2016.
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