The manuscript that Dr. Lance Horner, Dr. Ovunc Bardakcioglu, Dr. Abigail Cheng, and medical student Henry Krasner worked on, "Primary Closure of Ileostomy Site After Irrigation with Betaine-polyhexanide: A Case Series" was just accepted for publication to the Journal of Surgical Case Reports.

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article with the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2023 Cancer Collaborators titled, “The global, regional, and national burden of cancer, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,” in the journal The…

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…

Vikash Patel, Sidath Kapukotuwa (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) presented a paper titled, “Tai Chi as a Mind-Body Approach to Cardiovascular Health: A Contemporary Evidence Synthesis,” at the 12th Annual meeting of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences North American Section, held…

Sidath Kapukotuwa, Ana Gonzalez-Alvarez (Social and Behavioral Health), Shane Kraus (Psychology), and Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Betting on the future: A systematic review of modern gambling interventions for college students” in the Journal of Gambling Studies (Impact factor 2.2).  The…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Design and evaluation of a multi-theory model-based intervention to promote childbearing intentions among Iranian single-child women: A mixed-methods protocol” with coauthors Shahid Sadoughi from University of Medical Sciences in the Journal of Research Development in…

Myung-Rho Kim, Taha Shaikh, Spencer Taylor, Shawn Wang, Darren Nguyen, Banveet Kaur Khetarpal, Ali Namazi, Vidhani S. Goel, Roberto Sagaribay, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) have published “Global Longitudinal Strain as a Prognostic Biomarker for Asymptomatic Moderate to Severe Aortic Regurgitation with Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Systematic…

Mina Attin (Nursing), Bryer Shareef (Computer Science), Xan Goodman (Libraries), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with their students Nelson Appiah-Agyei, Farzana Mahamud Rini, Lauren Bredesky, Jonathan Chavez, and Rawa Mohammed, published “Predicting In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Using Machine Learning Models: Protocol for a Scoping Review” in…

UNLV Health’s two school-based clinics, providing no-cost medical care to students and siblings in the Clark County School District, handled more than 24-hundred patient visits in fiscal year 24-25. The clinics, at Bailey Middle School and inside the district’s Family Support Center on Maryland Parkway, aim to improve access to medical care for…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with Jagdish Khubchandani, Elizabeth England-Kennedy, and Karen Kopera-Frye (New Mexico State University), and Srikanta Banerjee (Walden University), co-authored a study published in Brain Sciences on the links between diabetes, cognitive health, and mortality risk in older Hispanics. The research provides key…

Ahmed Nadeem-Tariq, Christopher J. Fang, Jeffrey Lucas Hii, and Karen Nelson (all Medicine) published “Biosensor-Integrated Tibial Components in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Narrative Review of Innovations, Challenges, and Translational Frontiers” in Bioengineering. This review explores the emerging integration of biosensors into tibial…

Dr. Kevin Petersen (Medicine) and co-authors in the Division of Acute Care Surgery at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine published a case study entitled “Complex management of a patient with impalement injury to the neck” in Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open.