Local doctors are on high alert over a fungus that is causing serious infections. Hospitals are seeing an influx of patients ranging from the flu, RSV, and COVID.

When it comes to driving habits in the state of Nevada, the descriptions are rarely flattering.

The long Covid-19 lockdowns and the threat of health risks outside kept people isolated, holed up in their houses, and glued to their TV screens, laptops, and mobile phones in India. This sedentary lifestyle didn’t spare the children either. Even young preschoolers have started to spend more screen time—using mobile phones at an alarmingly high number of daily hours. Screen-watching among Indian preschoolers and children is much higher than the prescribed screen-watching limit set by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Early in his presidency, George Washington opined that the promotion of both science and literature was the basis of public happiness and that they were also the very basis of democracy. If Nevada were to use health care as a surrogate for science, and public education as a surrogate for literature, Washington would have reason for concern. Nevada currently ranks in the bottom half of states for quality of health care and ranks 45th for public school systems.

Researchers from UNLV have received a grant to study law enforcement traffic stops around Nevada.

Dear Newsweek, About a year and a half ago, my son got involved with a girl he met at his job. He was only 18 and had four credits left to get in his senior year of high school before graduation. About a month before school was due to start back, he came to me and told me that his girlfriend had to move out of her sister's house, and if she couldn't find a place around us, he would move to another town about 45 minutes away.

Patients are waiting an average of 26 days for a scheduled appointment with a doctor according to a new survey by Merritt Hawkins. The group polled more than 1,000 physician offices looking at average wait times among family medicine, dermatology, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedic surgery and cardiology.

Your elementary school-aged child is scrolling through YouTube when they are suddenly hit with a political advertisement.

Your elementary school-aged child is scrolling through YouTube when they are suddenly hit with a political advertisement.

Once again, health authorities fear a severe flu season on top of a winter surge in COVID-19, only this time with a twist:

Once again, health officials fear there could be a severe flu season on top of a winter COVID-19 surge, only this time with a twist:

A new medical school building at UNLV hopes to relieve the doctor shortage that's plaguing Nevada by adding more students and churning out more medical graduates.