Topic: health and medicine

student-to-counselor ratio: 508-to-1
Research | April 5, 2017

Education policy experts stress the importance of access to mental health care in schools as counseling professions categorized as “bright outlook” occupations for workforce development.

Nursing students practice on a manikin
Campus News | March 21, 2017

Step into the custom-designed training center for UNLV nursing students where manikins talk, blood is made by the gallon, and life-saving skills are mastered.

Executive Chef Mark Sandoval works with students in UNLV's community garden
Campus News | March 21, 2017

UNLV’s Campus Community Garden gets Hotel College students digging down to the root of sustainability, the environment, and what makes for the best veggies on your dinner plate.

Alyssa Crittenden looks at computer
Campus News | March 15, 2017

Oral health of modern day African tribe transitioning from hunting and gathering to agricultural diet challenges long held presumptions about our Stone Age ancestors.

Dr. Mark Dubrouva
People | February 16, 2017

The Las Vegas physician and higher education regent discusses his own educational experience and why UNLV’s School of Medicine is so important to health of our community.

Michael Easter
People | February 16, 2017

Michael Easter, former editor of Men’s Health, is the host of a new healthy living show on KUNV radio.

Pamela Beal
People | January 5, 2017

After receiving two kidney transplants over the last two decades, the associate dean of clinical affairs dedicated her life to improving health care for others.

Paulo Pinheiro
Research | November 29, 2016

Survival rate stands nearly 5 percent below the national average for Southern Nevadans and is especially low for state's black and Filipina women.

U.N.L.V. signage with Fall leaves in the background
Research | November 21, 2016

Breakthrough UNLV study shows major differences between the types of cancer and mortality rates of U.S.-born blacks versus those who emigrate from the Caribbean.

Hunter Davidson poses with toothbrush
People | November 9, 2016

This student is intent on supplying underprivileged people around the globe with an essential health tool most of us take for granted.

Neil Haycocks
People | November 7, 2016

Running a medical school has a lot in common with putting on a massive, four-year-long theater production, according to this member of UNLV’s new School of Medicine.