Efelya was created to help pregnant women monitor their potential health risks after co-founder Florine Duplessis battled her own high-risk pregnancy.
Jessie Bekker
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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.
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In the only trial of its kind in the U.S., a Las Vegas doctor is injecting patients with a radioactive liquid and scanning their brains in hopes of discovering the cause of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Three people in Southern Nevada have died of the flu, marking the first deaths of the 2018-19 flu season, the health district said Thursday.
This year’s flu season is shaping up to be less severe than last, according to data from the Southern Nevada Health District, which show there have been no deaths linked to the flu so far.
A video of a swaddled baby, hooked up to breathing tubes, his tiny fingers and toes poking out from underneath a wrap, leads the homepage of the Every Baby Counts Nevada campaign site.
An expected crowd of 375,000 people brought in the new year Vegas style, with 80,000 fireworks launching into the 2019 sky against a brisk breeze that nearly stopped the party before it started.
An adult living in Southern Nevada imported the area’s first measles case since 2015, the Southern Nevada Health District said in an emailed statement Thursday.
On a cool Las Vegas Christmas Eve night, Arlie Daniel Jr., who lives with cancer, expects his house to be packed with the warmth of loved ones celebrating holiday togetherness once more.
Withers for Warriors will employ four psychologists and six horses to help adults struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, especially veterans, first responders and women who were victims of domestic violence.
Illegally manufactured fentanyl drove an increase in national overdose deaths between 2013 and 2017, but the small rise in such deaths in Nevada was found to be statistically insignificant.
DaVita, in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week, indicated that while Optum will continue with its planned purchase of DaVita, it will carve out the Nevada clinics, helping reduce the price of its purchase to $4.34 billion.
The number of Nevadans signing up for a health insurance plan through the state-based marketplace declined by 8 percent this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported Wednesday.
The holiday season doesn’t bring good tidings of comfort and joy to everyone.
What began as a 44,000-square-foot facility with 62 beds and a half-staffed emergency department, has grown into Nevada’s largest acute-care facility. Along the way, it changed the face of health care in the Las Vegas Valley.