Medical students at UNLV learned where they will spend their residencies. The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine hosted a Match Day ceremony for members of the class of 2026.

Keeping medical talent local is a priority, and students at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and Touro University Nevada are helping to strengthen that pipeline. For many in UNLV’s class of 2026, the priority was staying in Las Vegas.

Cheers and anticipation filled Match Day celebrations across the Las Vegas Valley as medical students learned where they will complete their residency training, a key step toward becoming practicing physicians. With Nevada facing an ongoing nurse shortage, students and medical professionals said they look forward to Match Day as a chance to help grow the local health care workforce.

When it comes to resistance training, doing some is better than doing none, and consistency is key, according to new recommendations from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Resistance training, also known as weight or strength training, is linked to numerous health benefits for people of all ages, including improved muscle strength, better metabolic health, and reduced risk of falls in older adults.

A growing body of research is spotlighting the MIND diet, a blend of Mediterranean and DASH eating. The takeaway, according to the research, is that the foods people choose today could help keep their minds sharper tomorrow.

As temperatures climb across the Las Vegas Valley, health experts are urging residents to take precautions ahead of dangerously hot conditions expected later this week.

Approximately 39,000 jobs were created in education and health services in the valley over the past decade through 2025, beating out trade, transportation and utilities (37,2000), according to new statistics from the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, which used data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Nearly half of U.S. generic prescriptions originate in India, which relies on the Strait of Hormuz for the arrival of key inputs in drug manufacturing including petroleum-based materials, and for shipping finished medicines to the U.S.

Congresswoman Dina Titus is set to announce a new grant of more than $1 million supporting UNLV’s Instrumentation for Pathogen Detection in Water project on Thursday. The funding will be used to purchase new equipment that can measure pathogen levels in water and strengthen public health and water security efforts across Nevada.

Could a new kind of blood test find cancer early, even before symptoms appear?

A big milestone for 66 UNLV medical students as they receive their white coats, marking the next phase of their medical education.

The white-coat ceremony, held at the Artemus Ham Concert Hall on the university’s main campus, signifies the shift from student to student-physician, as participants will begin working alongside doctors in caring for patients during the final two years of medical school.