Appointments at Southern Nevada Health District sites on Thursday through Saturday and University Medical Center on Thursday and Friday will be rescheduled for next week.
Mary Hynes
Mary Hynes returned to the Review-Journal in August 2019 as the newspaper’s health reporter after working in public affairs and communications for MGM Resorts International. She previously worked as an editor and a reporter at the RJ. The University of Colorado graduate also worked as a reporter at newspapers in Colorado. She is a native of Oregon.
On Thanksgiving of last year, Ashleigh Cope’s heart stopped. The then-22-year-old had contracted a flesh-eating bacterial infection that nearly killed her in the aftermath of minor cosmetic surgery.
Officials with the Southern Nevada Health District gave giving a telebriefing to members of the news media on Friday.
On Sunday, Dr. Marianne Hazelitt began her quest to be tested for COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus.
Parents who say their daughter was attacked and traumatized at Montevista Hospital are speaking out in hopes of spurring change at the facility cited by regulators in 2019.
So far this flu season, there have been 758 people hospitalized with the flu in Clark County, and 11 deaths, including that of a child under the age of 5.
UNLV communication studies assistant professor Natalie Pennington urges restraint when it comes to cutting social media ties with people who aren’t close friends.
The individual was a woman over the age of 50 and had previously been reported as having neuroinvasive illness, a serious form of the virus.