University Police Officer Bree Torrey said it was a face she couldn’t forget.

When it comes to fixing Nevada’s well-documented doctor shortage, much of the attention has focused on the opening of UNLV’s medical school and the expansion of physician residency options in Southern Nevada. But there is another, often-overlooked piece of the state’s healthcare puzzle.

A group of UNLV surgeons recently finished a 5-year study and learned something that may be no surprise to Southern Nevada residents: Pavement gets hot.

Kayla McBride is not trying to be LeBron James.

As chair of the UNLV Faculty Senate, I feel compelled to respond to the potentially misleading statements concerning Acting President Marta Meana in the recent Sun article “Analysis: Was threat against UNLV part of a power play by regents?”

When Nevada Regent Patrick Carter voted for his colleague Kevin Page to serve as the board’s chairman in June 2017, he didn’t know that Page had committed an apparent breach of the regents’ ethics guideline two years earlier by demanding special treatment for a family member who was attending UNLV at the time.

The middle class is synonymous with the American Dream: the house, the kids, the cars, vacations and a comfortable retirement.

It's being called a "man-made" health epidemic. The opioid crisis is being blamed for more than two-thirds of all overdose deaths in the United States.

If you've read any health news this summer, chances are you've heard about (and been totally freaked out by) the "flesh-eating bacteria" infecting people at U.S. beaches. While there are several forms of flesh-eating bacteria, the one gaining the most attention lately is called Vibrio vulnificus, which is found in saltwater and brackish coastal waters where oceans meet rivers.