Through tears from a Clark County Detention Center cell late Thursday, Ezequiel Anorve-Serrano talked about his 14-year-old son, Silas, who died Monday after jumping from the family’s car on U.S. Highway 95.
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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.
Dr. Ivan Goldsmith, a weight loss specialist, is accused of using his access to the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program in an “incompetent, unskillful or negligent manner” by looking up Stephen Paddock’s patient profile on five occasions.
Renown Health Foundation will use $650,000 in restitution dollars from a multistate settlement with Deutsche Bank to help fund an addiction and mental health center in Northern Nevada, the attorney general’s office announced Tuesday.
Technology vendor GetInsured will provide enrollment and eligiblity services along with running the exchange call center.
Critics of the “very restrictive” new policy aimed at curbing Medicaid fraud say it still could delay or deny care to low-income Nevadans in their time of greatest need.
Dr. Peter Mansky died Aug. 4 after complications from a heart surgery.
Alicia Arnott stood in her parents’ kitchen in Oahu carefully chopping fat off a piece of chicken, making sure to remove every visible layer.
The Latin, Henderson and Boulder City chambers of commerce have begun offering members a choice of 10 insurance options through so-called association health plans recently authorized by the Trump administration.
Behavioral health nonprofit WestCare will receive $273,000 from Clark County to help recoup uncompensated costs arising from its treatment of drug addicts and the mentally ill last year at its Las Vegas clinic.
Public health experts say the Clark County School District’s vaccination rate is above threshold for epidemic concerns, but some warn that students with compromised immune systems could be at risk from those who opt out.
The state agency that administers Medicaid announced this summer that it would soon limit patients to three therapy sessions before requiring them to obtain pre-approval for continuing treatment.
Though waiting lists for autism-related services top the thousands across the Las Vegas Valley, two new practitioners aim to put a dent in those numbers.
A recent study says Nevada has barely improved the ratio of physicians-to-residents, which is one of the highest in the nation, despite longstanding efforts to do so.
Immigration Clinic attorney Laura Barrera flew to Texas on Thursday to find out what had become of the man who had called her earlier from ICE’s Henderson Detention Center seeking help reuniting with his 5-year-old daughter.
About 50 nurses whose contract with MountainView Hospital has lapsed picketed the medical center on Tuesday, accusing the Tennessee-based firm that owns the facility of putting patients at risk through inadequate staffing.