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Much of the attention each presidential election cycle centers on swing states where the outcome can have an outsize impact on who wins the White House. But candidate campaigns and political analysts also zero in on smaller areas where factors like demographics and turnout can play critical roles in the race's ultimate outcome.
Four Seasons’ bed linens and JW Marriott’s shampoo aren’t just for guests staying in the hotels anymore. The items are available for sale on dedicated websites, so customers can cozy up in Four Seasons sheets at home, or wash their hair with JW Marriott Ylang Ylang Shampoo in their own shower.
It's that unfortunate time of year for illness: Cold and flu season is upon us. While influenza viruses spread year-round, staff with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says flu activity peaks between December and February. The overall health impact (e.g., infections, hospitalizations, and deaths) of flu varies from season to season.
Nikkie Preston has spent her career serving others. Learning from her mother’s example, Preston knew that helping people was her purpose and found fulfillment in hospice care. While educating and training the community in hospice care, she noticed the need for more nurses and physicians. This realization led her to the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, where she works with medical students and helps shape the next generation of Southern Nevada’s doctors.
People with schizophrenia will have a new treatment option for the first time in more than three decades, after the Food and Drug Administration Thursday approved a new kind of drug.
The Community Canopy Project, in partnership with the nonprofit Arbor Day Foundation, marks a key first step in the All-In Clark County climate change mitigation plan. UNLV’s Las Vegas Urban Forest Center is working on boosting tree canopy in urban heat islands, too, with a $5 million federal grant.
Heat has claimed the lives of more people in 2024 in Southern Nevada than in any prior year on record, officials said. The latest round of heat-related-death data from the Clark County coroner’s office, released on Thursday, shows that heat was a factor in the deaths of 342 people. It’s without question that the toll will continue to rise, especially as it can take up to 90 days to determine a cause of death — and whether heat was a factor.
People who identified as a sexual or gender minority (LGBTQ+) had a higher likelihood of adverse brain health outcomes, cross-sectional data showed.
In 1979, guests at the Tropicana Las Vegas toasted to the addition of the 600-room Tiffany Tower which, due to its structural steel frame, appears simpler to implode than its reinforced concrete-framed sister. On Wednesday, plans for the Oct. 9 implosion of the two hotel towers on the Tropicana property were released by Bally’s Entertainment. The demolition of the two 23-story structures the Club Tower and Paradise Tower, formerly known as the Tiffany Tower, call for over 2,000 pounds of explosives.