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Current Medicine News
Members of the class of 2028 were treated to a week full of activities where they were introduced to the medical school and their fellow classmates.
Professor Edwin Oh’s 'SEFTY' program is providing a slice of life for future scientists, giving high schoolers an authentic lab experience.
Dr. Aron Rogers shares how small towns stir up big feelings for residents in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine's rural family medicine program.
News highlights featuring UNLV students and staff who made (refreshing) waves in the headlines.
Qlub Med hopes to fix health disparities and inequities among the LGBTQ+ community through education.
When it comes to challenges, the medical school's director of academic support services likes to remind students that practice makes perfect.
Medicine In The News
The researchers found that compared to women without breast cancer and depression, those who only had breast cancer or depression were 1.45 times or 1.43 times more likely to die, respectively. However, compared to those without breast cancer and depression, the risk of death more than tripled for women with both breast cancer and depression.
Whether it’s the assassination attempt of a former president, a sitting president not seeking reelection for the first time in decades, global IT outages, or the hottest day recorded in human history, people are stressed out. A slew of back-to-back historical events in less than a month are dominating the phone, television, and computer screens of social media and news. Some compare it to watching the end of the world.
Tourists flocking to Las Vegas over the July 4 holiday weekend helped fuel a surge in COVID infections, experts say. “We have an increase in viral illnesses for the Fourth of July in particular. For the summer holidays, we are always prepared for an increase in tourists visiting Las Vegas this weekend,” said Dr. Ketan Patel, medical director of the UMC Adult Emergency Department.
Tourists who flocked in droves to Las Vegas over the Fourth of July holiday weekend helped spur a rise in COVID infections, experts say. “We have a surge in viral illnesses for July 4 in particular. For summer holidays, we’re always prepared for a surge in tourists that visit Las Vegas this weekend,” said Dr. Ketan Patel, medical director of UMC’s Adult Emergency Department.
UNLV medicine professor Edwin Oh had a simple question for his young students. “Do you see green cells?” If they said yes — and, happily, they all did — that meant they had successfully transfused a special protein into a small dish of human kidney cells that allowed the cells to glow green when placed under a beam of blue light emitting from a high-powered fluorescent microscope.
UNLV School of Medicine Professor Edwin Oh prepares a sample of human embryonic kidney cells for students to look at through a microscope during SEFTY, or Science Education For The Youth, a free program that offers research lab experience to science-minded high school students on Thursday, July 18, 2024.
