If you have a loved one who has Type 1 diabetes, aka juvenile diabetes, UNLV wants to talk to you. Physicians at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine are looking for volunteers for a diabetes study designed to help slow the progression of the disease.

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV is looking for volunteers who want to join a large study that could help slow the progression of diabetes. Researchers want participants who have yet to be diagnosed with diabetes but are in a high-risk group.

For years in Las Vegas, the saying went something like this: "if you need specialized medical care, go to the airport," because then you can catch a flight to Los Angeles or some other city with a hospital that actually does that surgery. Well, that’s slowly changing.

UNLV faculty members receive endowments which provides resources for clinical departments.

Anatomage Inc., a leader in 3D medical visualization technology, is excited to announce the upcoming National Anatomage Tournament. This event will occur at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on June 1st, 2024. The tournament will be live-streamed on our Anatomage YouTube channel at 3:30 PM PT.

Biodesix, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDSX), a leading diagnostic solutions company with a focus in lung disease, announced that new data will be presented today at the 2024 American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference in San Diego, California. The presentation, titled "Performance comparison of a blood-based integrated classifier for lung nodule risk stratification in patients with versus without emphysema," will be presented by Arthur Romero MD, MSC, FCCP, Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

“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.