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Despite a guidance counselor's naysaying, the former UNLV president has racked up a lifetime of achievements too long to list.
The Behavioral Health Education, Retention, and Expansion Network of Nevada aims to improve the mental health workforce in the state.
Anesthesiology resident Dr. Vladislav Zhitny still makes time to help UNLV medical students get their work published in peer-reviewed journals.
Faculty and staff joined the dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at his fourth State of the School Address, the second one to be hosted at the Medical Education Building.
UNLV study uses wastewater surveillance model to detect, manage emerging viruses and offer clues on public health challenges of vulnerable populations.
Dedicated to helping underserved communities in Nevada, UNLV Health is leading transformative health care while educating and training Nevada’s future health care practitioners.
Medicine In The News
“This is probably the first time to our knowledge that a program like this has been deployed in an urban city looking at storm drains where individuals are living in these areas,” said Edwin Oh, Ph.D., associate professor at the UNLV School of Medicine.
COVID-19 is still a concern nationwide. And now, two new variants are showing up here in the valley. Scientists have nicknamed the new variants FLIRT after their mutations.
There is a primary care shortage across the country – including here in Nevada. The state’s rank among U.S. states is currently 45th for active physicians per 100,000, according to the American Medical Association. Currently, there are 7,388 physicians (MDs and DOs) with an active license to practice in Nevada. We need an additional 1,500 primary care physicians to meet the national average.
For more than 30 years, the federal government has provided medical care in Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico for residents affected by the radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site from the 1950s and '60s. That medical care also went out to those who were part of uranium mining throughout those states. Benefits began with an act of Congress in the 1990s. But they're set to expire, leaving many to wonder how to pay for that care.
The need for mental health care services in Nevada has never been greater than it is now. This trend is reflected across the nation, but a detrimental lack of access to services puts Nevada in a particularly difficult position.
Wastewater is an early warning system for COVID and other diseases, and a collaborative effort in Nevada appears to be the first in the nation to detect a new strain of the disease — known as FLiRT.
