The Nevada Highway Patrol announced Thursday that it will equip officers who undergo training with the opioid-overdose reversal drug, naloxone.
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Jessie Bekker joined the Review-Journal in 2017 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. A Milwaukee, Wisconsin native, she left the snowy Midwest for the desert heat to cover health.
Clark County official says report ranking Las Vegas metro area as having the second-most days of “degraded air quality” based its ratings on wrong EPA standard.
The campaign aims to raise funds to get services for the roughly 3,200 children on the UNLV Medicine Ackerman Autism Center’s waiting list.
New rule may allow business organization to resume offering association health plan for its members, something it did for 30 years prior to passage of the Affordable Care Act.
The number of children in Nevada without health insurance was cut by more than half between 2011 and 2016, but the state’s rate of uninsured kids remains ninth highest in the U.S., according to a new report.
On Oct. 1, 2017, hundreds of heroes sprung into action in Las Vegas after the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting. Many were police or EMS. Many were ordinary people.
Stacy Perry, a 39-year-old mother of four in Las Vegas battling stage 4 colon cancer, says she “cried tears of joy” when President Donald Trump signed the bill on May 30. But her doctor says he doesn’t see much benefit from the bill.
First Health Career Exploration Camp at the College of Southern Nevada aims to help high school students find a medical field that’s a good fit.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval joined a group of four bipartisan governors in signing a letter Thursday asking for federal support for state- and local-level initiatives to address the nationwide opioid crisis.
From 2009 through 2016, the average price per private insurance claim rose 147 percent to $1,281, trailing only the costliest state of California, according to date compiled by the nonpartisan Health Care Cost Institute.
We Care Behavioral Health Agency LLC was convicted on a gross misdemeanor charge of intentional failure to maintain adequate records, according to a news release Tuesday from Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s office.
A Las Vegas judge on Tuesday dismissed the immigration case against an undocumented mother of three who was detained and nearly deported in late March .
Socks and shoes are among the things that could have blocked Jessica Lindley’s path toward college. For the 18-year-old Las Vegan, daily tasks such as putting on footwear require extra effort. Still, it could’ve been worse.
Memorial Day kicks off the unofficial summer season, but fun in the sun doesn’t come without its risks, say three local emergency room physicians who’ve seen their share of good times gone bad.
Several people who worked at or near the Route 91 Harvest festival the night of the mass shooting later shared their stories in Spanish or English with Las Vegas police. Their stories were among records released Wednesday.