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Department of Internal Medicine News

The department of internal medicine houses a residency program with a multimodal approach to learning, including both hands-on and self-directed approaches. Subspecialty fellowships are offered in cardiovascular medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, geriatric medicine, rheumatology, critical care medicine, gastroenterology, pulmonary and critical care, and soon, hematology and medical oncology, and neurology care.

Internal Medicine In The News

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A federal vaccine advisory committee voted to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born or before they leave the hospital. For decades, the shots have been widely considered to be a public health success for preventing hundreds of thousands of illnesses.

Nevada Independent

Nevada cities may now be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars more in workers compensation for lung disease claims from first responders after a surprise bill passed out of the recent special legislative session.

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New research is revealing people who have cosmetic filler injections in their face are at possible risk for dangerous complications involving blocked arteries.

MedPage Today

For patients with autoimmune vasculitides, mortality is on the decline in the U.S. but still remains elevated compared with the general population. These immunological disorders of inflammation of blood vessel walls have one of the highest mortality rates among rheumatologic diseases.

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The defense attorney for the teenager accused of causing a 12-car crash that killed two people, including his pregnant girlfriend, argues his client suffered a seizure before the wreck.

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If you're wondering why you get sleepy after feasting on the traditional Thanksgiving meal, we're getting answers. Is turkey the culprit or is it the mountain of mashed potatoes and stuffing?

Recent Internal Medicine Accomplishments

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Healthcare Innovations in Software, Engineering & Technology (HISET-2025) held in Karad, Maharashtra, India. The title of his presentation was "Advent of the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change in…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual paper titled “Online teaching for public health in program planning” at the 18th Annual International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI), 2025, held in Seville, Spain. The presentation highlighted his pedagogical approach using the multi-…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a co-presenter of 31 presentations with his students and colleagues at the 153rd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association held in Washington, D.C., Nov. 2-5. The topics of his presentation ranged from public health workforce training in Nevada, mental health…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk 2023 Collaborators titled, “Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2023” in…
Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health); Ashish Kumar Biswas (Epidemiology and Biostatistics); Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, "Evidence-based clinical effectiveness of Kundalini Yoga: Systematic review of RCTs across multiple health conditions" in the journal, Alternative…
Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article with the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2021 Low Bone Mineral Density Collaborators titled, “The global, regional, and national burden attributable to low bone mineral density, 1990–2020: An analysis of a modifiable risk factor from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021,” in…