Las Vegas Health

Consultant’s study highlights Southern Nevada’s need for children’s hospital

Sep 5, 2024 (2 a.m.)

By Grace Da Rocha

About 4,000 children leave Southern Nevada for health care each year with their families racking up thousands of dollars in medical bills, travel fees and lost work wages ...

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Paul Umbach, founder and president of Tripp Umbach, speaks during a community discussion on developing a stand-alone children’s hospital in Southern Nevada at UNLV Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024.

Sep 5, 2024 (2 a.m.)

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By Grace Da Rocha

About 4,000 children leave Southern Nevada for health care each year with their families racking up thousands of dollars in medical bills, travel fees and lost work wages ...

• CCSD a step closer to letting students carry emergency medications

  Aug 27, 2024 (2 a.m.)

  By Hillary Davis

  A pending change to a Clark County School District regulations will allow the youngest students with asthma, diabetes and allergies that trigger life-threatening anaphylaxis to carry and self-administer ...

  

• Congress to take on senior opioid struggles

  Aug 23, 2024 (2 a.m.)

  By Alicia Hernandez-Gonzalez

  There’s no debate that the opioid crisis persists in the U.S. In 2022, more than 80,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose, while nearly 10 million misused the drugs. But an underreported aspect of the ...

• Recall of Boar's Head deli meats announced during investigation of listeria outbreak

  Jul 26, 2024 (8:21 a.m.)

  By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

  U.S. health officials Friday announced a recall of some Boar's Head liverwurst and other deli meats as they investigate a listeria outbreak that has sickened nearly ...

• Horses infected with West Nile virus euthanized in Southern Nevada

  Jul 24, 2024 (9:55 a.m.)

  By Las Vegas Sun Staff

  Officials in Clark and Nye counties have euthanized horses infected with the West Nile virus, the Nevada Department of Agriculture said. “Two horses in Southern Nevada have succumbed to symptoms from West Nile virus,” Peter Mundschenk, the state veterinarian with ...

• President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19 while campaigning in Las Vegas

  Jul 17, 2024 (3:17 p.m.)

  By Hillary Davis

  President Joe Biden cut his Nevada campaign swing short today after testing positive for COVID-19. The president of UnidosUS, who was set to host Biden as a keynote speaker this afternoon at the MGM Grand, made the announcement. Biden’s reported positive test ...

  

• Extreme heat and some medicines can be a risky combo. Here's what to know

  Jul 12, 2024 (11:44 a.m.)

  By Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press

  Extreme heat can raise the danger of heat-related illnesses and threaten health in a more subtle way — by amplifying the side effects of many common medications. Hot weather, too, can damage medicines such as ...

  

• Wastewater monitoring raises possibility of summer COVID-19 surge in Clark County

  Jul 9, 2024 (2 a.m.)

  By Grace Da Rocha

  It’s in the air, and now in the water. Samples from Southern Nevada’s wastewater have shown an increase of the COVID-19 virus in areas of the valley, indicating a possible summer surge of the illness that has spread across the country. “It seems like the numbers are trending up nationwide; they’re not at the levels we ...

  

• UNLV researcher optimistic as Alzheimer’s drug donanemab receives FDA approval

  Jul 5, 2024 (2 a.m.)

  By Grace Da Rocha

  For Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, a brain health researcher and professor at UNLV, this is an exciting time in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Federal health advisers in May voted to ...

  

• Five more cases of mosquito-borne West Nile virus reported in Clark County

  Jul 3, 2024 (12:04 p.m.)

  By Ayden Runnels

  Five more West Nile virus cases have been reported in Clark County, including three of a more serious neuroinvasive form, according to the Southern Nevada Health District. The new cases bring the ...

  

• Two cases of West Nile virus detected in Las Vegas area

  Jun 26, 2024 (2:22 p.m.)

  By Grace Da Rocha

  Two people in Clark County contracted mosquito-borne West Nile virus, but both recovered from the sometimes fatal illness, the Southern Nevada Health District said. One of the patients was a ...

• Lowering prescription costs for Medicare beneficiaries lifted burdens for Nevadans, they tell HHS secretary

  Jun 23, 2024 (2 a.m.)

  By Grace Da Rocha

  When Ty Jones was diagnosed with prostate cancer a few years ago, he immediately began seeking treatment from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Las Vegas ...

  

• CDC director praises the ‘great work’ done by Southern Nevada Health District

  Jun 13, 2024 (2 a.m.)

  By Grace Da Rocha

  Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, toured the federally funded Trac-B Exchange this week to discuss with members of ...

  

• Mosquitoes with West Nile, St. Louis encephalitis viruses detected in Southern Nevada

  Jun 10, 2024 (9:52 a.m.)

  By Grace Da Rocha

  The Southern Nevada Health District announced today that more mosquitoes with the West Nile and St. Louis encephalitis viruses have been found in Southern Nevada. The district reported the ...

  

• Illicit drug ‘tranq’ detected by health district in Southern Nevada

  May 29, 2024 (2 a.m.)

  By Grace Da Rocha

  The Southern Nevada Health District has detected the illicit drug xylazine in local drug supply through a surveillance program where drug paraphernalia is anonymously collected and sampled in Clark County ...

  
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