Nevada continues to have a physician shortage. Our panel of experts share the challenges of attracting and retaining doctors in Nevada. They also explain how they hope Nevada’s lawmakers address these issues during the 2025 Legislative Session.

“The Las Vegas Medical District has been in existence since the 1990s. We’ve been constantly trying to work to develop it,” says Brian Knudsen. “It’s very common in other cities around the country, to concentrate medical care [like we have]. It makes it easier for patients, makes it easier for healthcare professionals, to be in the same area.”

Residents and apartment managers near UNLV continue their calls for crackdowns on homeless encampments, as police and local leaders offer solutions at a Wednesday night town hall.

Type 2 diabetes may rewire the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer’s disease — and UNLV researchers say the “why” may lie in a previously unexplored connection between high blood sugar levels and a key part of the brain called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).

Oklahoma, Oregon and California are the best-positioned states to benefit from the interstate commerce that would result from federal marijuana descheduling, according to a white paper published this month by the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The analysis said those states having the cheapest large-scale production costs and the highest per-capita economic potential, putting them in a better position that other state-legal cannabis markets.

State lawmakers held their first meeting Wednesday on a bill that would allow Nevada colleges and universities to pay student-athletes directly.

Once businesses can send marijuana products coast to coast, current markets, regulatory burden and the varying costs of doing business will help decide which states beat out the others in the market, University of California, Davis economist Robin Goldstein wrote in a report with UNLV’s Cannabis Policy Institute.

Type 2 diabetes may alter brain wiring similarly to early Alzheimer’s, and UNLV researchers suggest this could be due to a previously unexplored link between high blood sugar levels and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).

Once businesses can send marijuana products coast to coast, current markets, regulatory burden and the varying costs of doing business will help decide which states beat out the others in the market, University of California, Davis economist Robin Goldstein wrote in a report with UNLV’s Cannabis Policy Institute.