Prior to joining UNLV, Dr. Atkinson was emeritus vice chancellor and professor with the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

Universities and professional schools across the West have been reacting to the Supreme Court’s recent decision rejecting affirmative action. For the head of one of the handful of medical schools in the region, the ruling didn’t come as a surprise, but he is preoccupied by some potential implications.

Thanks to a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV is currently the only institution to offer no-cost medical screenings to Nevada residents who were exposed to radiation from the nuclear testing.

Heat exhaustion can cause dizziness, thirst, excessive sweating, and nausea and can lead to a heat stroke.

As the mercury rises, so does the danger. Summer heat can be dangerous and even deadly. Temperatures are starting to hit near triple digits, and it’s important to know how to stay safe in the heat.

An analysis of nearly 11,000 human cancers revealed how large chromosomal changes, called aneuploidies, can promote or slow the growth of tumors.

Yasamin Goravanchi and Meher Dhaliwal are two teens hoping to break the cycle of substance abuse in our community by hosting a peer-led workshop every week.

For years, Las Vegas has struggled to attract and retain doctors but the growing medical district off of Rancho and Charleston is adding another attractive incentive.

In the year of Our Lord 2023, you’d expect sex positivity to extend to people with sexually transmitted diseases – but why does contracting something like HPV feel like a dating death sentence?

The Kerkorian School of Medicine has a new medical education building. The beautiful new 135,000 square feet of the state of the art facility.

According to the World Health Organization, Alzheimer's is one of our most debilitating diseases. It effectively erases who you are, insinuating itself at first with annoyance, then anger, then fright, and finally silence. It can take 20 years to play out, exhausting caregivers, family, and friends.

Patients taking antidepressant medication, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), often report emotional blunting even as their depression eases, new research shows.