Complaints about illegal dumping of waste to the Southern Nevada Health District rose 28 percent from 2016 to 2017, the agency said Tuesday.
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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.
Karen West, dean of the UNLV School of Dental Medicine, submitted her resignation in early October.
After her insurer initially refused to pay anything, saying her son’s pain wasn’t severe enough to require a trip to the emergency room, Diane Parnell appealed the denial and ultimately triumphed.
The two-day survey, which is anonymous and voluntary, will be conducted between noon and 6 p.m. on Nov. 2 and between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Nov. 3 in 25 Las Vegas Valley ZIP codes, the release said.
It’s recess on a Wednesday afternoon at Walter Bracken STEAM Academy and kids are shooting hoops, playing four square and slapping a tetherball.
The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange ads will show young adults having accidents — like walking into a fountain while staring at a cell phone — and grappling with the financial consequences of being without insurance.
The Southern Nevada Health District says tests by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a local child had been afflicted by the rare but serious condition that affects the spinal cord and can cause paralysis.
October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Review-Journal asked four women how losing their breasts to cancer impacted their body image and femininity.
The agency partnered with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Clear Channel Outdoor for the yearlong campaign after a similar effort on human trafficking led to “dozens of new leads and cases.”
Amanda Cook dreamed of being a mom of four until Mesa View Regional Hospital closed its labor and deliveryunit last week.
The expansion of Medicaid in Nevada in 2014 made mental health care much more widely available in a state ranked last in the nation for access to such services. It also provided a great opportunity for bad actors.
Nevadans buying health insurance on and outside the state marketplace will pay nearly the same prices they paid last year, the state Division of Insurance announced Tuesday.
Hospitals around the Las Vegas Valley stopped to take note Monday of the anniversary of the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, which left 58 concertgoers dead and more than 800 others wounded.
On the anniversary of the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival that killed 58 country music lovers, Vitalant workers from Nevada and Arizona gathered at the Las Vegas Convention Center to do their jobs once again.
Access to care remains a big problem for Nevada’s residents, but the state is making gains in childhood vaccination and some other areas, according to a new report released by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.