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NewsAllAggregatePresenting Vegas Inc’s 2024 Health Care Headliners
These 10 headliners are dedicated to their craft and to the health and well-being of every member of the community. They are scientists, doctors and ...
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FeaturedHealthMental health and hospitality: Taking better care of workers who take care of Las Vegas
Conversations about work-life balance, mental health and growing support services and resources have expanded in the Las Vegas hospitality as they have in other industries ...
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NewsHealthNevada leaders, doctors discuss how to improve Black maternal health
The maternal death rate for Black women is more than double than of white or Latino women, according to data from Babyscripts.
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HealthSound investment: Use quality earplugs at concerts and festivals and avoid permanent hearing damage
Loud noise exposure can cause hearing loss, the ringing repercussions of tinnitus, and hyperacusis, which makes ordinary noises painful.
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NewsHealthOutdoors'Barefoot Dutchman' Anton Nootenboom stops in Vegas during his walk across the U.S.
Since February, the Dutch Army veteran has been traveling barefoot across Los Angeles and the Nevada desert on an ambitious 3,100-mile journey across the U.S. ...
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NewsAllAggregateOfficials encourage Las Vegans to get latest COVID-19 vaccination
The Health District is expecting doses of the vaccine from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech amid rising cases and hospitalizations as a new coronavirus strain ...
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NewsAllAggregatePresenting Vegas Inc’s 2023 Health Care Headliners
The Health Care Headliners awards recognize some of the best researchers and health care providers in Southern Nevadan medicine.
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NewsHealthMaria Shriver teams with the Ruvo Center to launch the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement Prevention Center
According to Cleveland Clinic statistics, two-thirds of the 6.5 million Americans currently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are women (4.3 million), and more than half of all ...
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NewsHealthNew Las Vegas health vending machine aims to help with HIV and drug overdoses
It dispenses syringe kits, hygiene kits, wound care kits, hormone injection kits, safer sex kits, pregnancy tests and nasal naloxone, which is used for emergency ...
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NewsHealthInvestments in the Las Vegas Medical District aim to improve health outcomes
“It’s the schools, in conjunction with the hospitals and clinics in which we practice, [that would] really provide the best level of care for our ...
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateNevada’s experience in COVID testing illustrates lack of ongoing national verification of standards for results
The Sun found a common theme: The scope of the public health crisis created interjurisdictional confusion: city, county, state and federal health officials found themselves ...
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NewsHealthLas Vegas Valley health officials and activists gear up as monkeypox cases mount
“If it’s skin-to-skin contact ... if it’s about hugging and kissing and having sex, I mean, who doesn’t do that?”
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateMonkeypox vaccinations to start Monday in Las Vegas
The Southern Nevada Health District on Monday will start administering a limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine, the agency said. Vaccine appointments are available by ...
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NewsHealthNevada advances as other states backslide on gender-affirming health care for youth
“When trans kids are forced to detransition, it immediately undoes the progress they made in their mental health when their gender dysphoria was being treated.”
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NewsAllAggregateLas Vegas volunteer medical organization throws a lifeline to residents in need
For uninsured Nevadans, Volunteers in Medicine can be a lifeline to the costly barriers of health care in the state. The two local locations combine ...
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NewsHealthUNLVAn $11.3 million grant renewal will continue to power important Las Vegas brain research
The Center for Neurodegeneration and Translational Neuroscience, jointly operated by UNLV and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, has enrolled more than ...
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateNevada governor announces an immediate end to mask mandate
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak today announced an immediate end to the state’s mask mandate, citing a downward trend in coronavirus cases. Masks will no longer ...
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateWhy is it better to wear an N95 than a cloth mask right now?
Health experts suggest stepping up protection against the highly contagious omicron variant with stronger masks such as N95s or KN95s.
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NewsAllAggregateSex-positive clinic in downtown Las Vegas offers treatment without judgment
When Daphne Chen was younger, she paid a visit to a gynecologist to get an intrauterine device to prevent pregnancy. The gynecologist refused, she said, ...
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AllSportsNHLSix Golden Knights depart on first day of NHL free agency
The expected mass exodus of free agents commenced for the Golden Knights on Monday. All six of Vegas’ unrestricted free agents left the organization to ...
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AllSportsAggregateAnalysis: Letting Jonathan Marchessault walk is a failure for the Golden Knights
Vegas was cash-strapped up against the salary cap but could have found a way to keep Marchessault if it was a priority — especially in ...
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NewsAllAggregateChaparral High School band prepares to shine in National Independence Day Parade
Ahead of a big summer trip to Washington, D.C., this week, Gladiola Jimenez said she was looking forward to seeing the capital’s museums, the Lincoln ...
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AllSportsAggregateGoodbye Marchy: Golden Knights' all-time leading scorer signs with Predators
Within minutes of NHL free agency opening Monday, multiple reports confirmed the 33-year-old forward signed a five-year deal with the Nashville Predators worth …
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateGolden Knights select Connelly with 1st-round pick, who brings controversy with him
The Vegas Golden Knights have selected left wing Trevor Connelly with their 19th overall pick in the NHL Draft. From Tustin, California, at 6-foot-1-inch and ...
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Draft recap: Vegas Golden Knights select 6 players; trade away 2
It was a busy weekend for the Vegas Golden Knights at the 2024 NHL Draft at Sphere as it drafted four players and acquired two ...
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NewsSportsAggregateAces defeat Fever, Caitlin Clark in front of largest WNBA crowd in 25 years
The Las Vegas Aces winning streak extended to five games on Tuesday, defeating the Indiana Fever, 88-69, in front of a record-breaking 20,366 fans at ...
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NewsAllSportsUFC iron man Arlovski back in Las Vegas for one more fight with no plans to stop
The 45-year-old heavyweight originally from Belarus will compete in his 60th professional bout today on the preliminary card of UFC 303 against Martin Buday, a ...
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NewsAllSportsLas Vegas native Payton Talbott soars as fastest-rising star at UFC 303
Many have compared Talbott’s smooth-moving, electric-striking style to the one employed by the current champion at his weight class, Sean O’Malley ...
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AllSportsAggregateAces unaffected by expected record crowd for game against Fever, Caitlin Clark
The WNBA might be exploding in popularity in large part because of Caitlin Clark, but the Aces were already thriving with a fervent fan base ...
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AllNASCARSportsWeekend wagers: A bunch of bets including three on UFC 303
The local NHL Draft, which started Friday at Sphere, got everyone thinking about the outlook of the league next year. ...
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NewsAllSportsUNLV basketball recruit James Evans looking like the ideal wing
Recruiting the high school ranks has become a tricky proposition in the NIL era. Coaches can fill roster holes with veteran transfers from the portal ...
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PoliticsAllAggregateVP Kamala Harris in Vegas: 'Race will not be decided by one night in June'
Vice President Kamala Harris came to the defense of President Joe Biden during a campaign appearance in Las Vegas on Friday, admitting his debate performance ...
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NewsAllAggregateNational Guard program helps Las Vegas teen turn pain into accomplishment
Ayla Lain struggled most of her life with abandonment by her parents, depression and medical issues before attempting suicide last year. She was just 16.
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NewsAllAggregateShould gaming take advantage of the latest developments in cannabis?
What is clear just by walking down Las Vegas Boulevard is that consumers are going to make cannabis a part of their experience either way ...
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NewsAllAggregateRising costs force CCSD to reassess school rebuilding plans
If the district doesn’t tap the brakes on its current construction campaign, it could run out of money before completing every project it has mapped ...
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NewsAllAggregateRTC harnesses power of AI technology to boost safety on Southern Nevada buses
A child brought a toy gun onto a Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada bus earlier this month. Until recently, officials would likely not have ...
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NewsAllSportsGolden Knights trade Logan Thompson to Capitals for draft pick
The Vegas Golden Knights gained one more draft pick in this year's NHL Draft than expected, selecting goalie Pavel Moysevich from St. Petersburg SKA of ...
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AllSportsAggregateGolden Knights' 2024-2025 season schedule is here
The Vegas Golden Knights will kick off their eighth campaign on Wednesday Oct. 9 against the Colorado Avalanche at T-Mobile Arena. ...
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AllSportsFightingUFC 303: Alex Pereira knocks out Jiri Prochazka, eyes historic third title
Pereira debuted in the octagon less than three years ago but has gone 8-1 and captured titles in both the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions. ...
