Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04), Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01), Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02), Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) today introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Medical Student Education Authorization Act, to authorize the Medical Student Education (MSE) Program for five years. The MSE Program provides grants to public institutions of higher education to expand or support graduate education for physicians in states with the most severe primary care provider shortages. First created in 2019 by Congressman Cole and Senator Inhofe, the MSE Program is currently subject to annual authorizations, which results in significant uncertainty over funding and long-term planning for funded institutions.

Whether it’s ground-level ozone or particulate matter from wildfires or dust, our good air quality days seem to be getting fewer each year.

A conservation group and a southern Nevada ski resort said Tuesday they settled a federal lawsuit that had blocked plans to put a mountain biking park on steep terrain that is home to the endangered Mount Charleston blue butterfly.

A 2021 research paper authored by Jeffrey Cummings, MD, ScD, and colleagues estimated the cumulative expenditures to fund Alzheimer disease (AD) clinical trials over the past quarter-century and highlighted the numerous failed attempts that continue to plague the field. Overall, excluding the recent approval of aducanumab (Aduhelm; Biogen), there have only been 5 drugs—all for symptomatic treatment only—that have achieved FDA approval for AD since 1995. An estimated $42.5 billion in private expenditures has been sunk into AD clinical trials since then, with phase 3 representing the highest stage for costs of research and development ($24.1B).

The free COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Tests from the government have begun arriving at properties. There are hopes it will assist stop the additional unfold of coronavirus.

Coverings, the largest international tile and stone exhibition and conference in North America, has announced a comprehensive roster of both popular and new programs for Coverings 2022 —which will take place April 5-8, 2022, at the Las Vegas Convention Center here. Coverings 2022 will feature four days in-person with visually appealing tile displays, hands-on branding and business-building strategies and the latest tile trends, technologies and techniques.

Coronavirus: 'Light at the end of tunnel' said Dr. Kahn with UNLV School of Medicine. We may be reaching herd immunity from natural infections and vaccinations.

Amanda Brooks questions the “what ifs” about the night her boyfriend was gunned down in a random shooting outside a south Las Vegas convenience store.

With the holidays behind us, local experts say this is the time when many married couples consider calling it quits.