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Current Medicine News
A collection of the top news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.
Alumna Ashley Pruitt credits Doctorate of Public Policy degree for teaching her how to reach legislators — and their constituents.
Dr. Denice Ichinoe was drawn to the family and community medicine residency program’s commitment to teaching residents and caring for underserved communities.
Dr. Declan Feery credits his great teaching to lessons learned from his attendings and co-residents while working with medical students.
Some of the biggest news headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.
UNLV researcher Soon Cho takes on the nascent space of human relationships with artificial intelligence, and the impacts of using chatbots for therapy.
Medicine In The News
A study on Ozempic’s impacts on Alzheimer’s disease didn’t have the results scientists hoped for. We talk to UNLV’s Dr. Jeffrey Cummings on the research and what’s next. Also from UNLV: a look at how a “new” species of an ancient human ancestor can help shape our view on evolution. We end with a fun story on “Silver Belle”... the first tree from Nevada to serve as the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree!
A study on Ozempic’s impacts on Alzheimer’s disease didn’t have the results scientists hoped for. We talk to UNLV’s Dr. Jeffrey Cummings on the research and what’s next. Also from UNLV: a look at how a “new” species of an ancient human ancestor can help shape our view on evolution. We end with a fun story on “Silver Belle”... the first tree from Nevada to serve as the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree!
Even though the holidays are meant to be joyful, plenty of people feel the opposite way. More than three in five Americans describe the season as stressful, overwhelming, or exhausting.
We turned to a panel of experts in the fields of personal finance, business, management and psychology for additional insight into the best New Year’s Resolutions for achieving financial improvement and strategies for sticking to them.
Over the past few years, scientists have learned that Ozempic and related drugs developed to treat Type 2 diabetes can improve the health of the liver, kidney and heart. Is it such a stretch to think they could also treat neurological disorders? Perhaps — at least when it comes to Alzheimer’s disease.
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.
