It's unwelcome news to a world already exhausted from Covid: a new subvariant is starting to get the attention of experts.

It's unwelcome news to a world already exhausted from Covid: a new subvariant is starting to get the attention of experts.

It was hard to miss the pure joy in front of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Friday morning.

Across the nation, medical students are celebrating match day. This is when future doctors, learn where they are ‘matched’ for residency.

Exactly two years ago, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic. At least six million lives have been lost during these 24 months and progress has been made in public health areas. But what's next now? Adriana Arevalo has the report.

Nevada’s congressional delegation secured more than $104 million for 64 projects around the state, including $12 million for the Nevada Cares Campus homeless shelter in Reno, as part of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package Congress is expected to pass soon.

While the current statistics may not meet the technical definition of an endemic, the recent and dramatic drop in COVID-19 cases, test positivity rates, and hospitalizations indicate Southern Nevada and other parts of the U.S. have almost arrived.

The ‘Down Syndrome Program’ is a new program at UNLV, aimed to help those with intellectual disabilities and their families.

Weighing just 90 pounds, the 90-year-old female on the table has a long medical history, including multiple broken bones, cataract removal and a hysterectomy, as well as the metastasizing kidney cancer and COPD that killed her.

Sami Mesgun trails residents and fellows at University Medical Center for his two-week rotations as a third-year medical student in UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine.

We continue to have an expanding awareness of sex, gender, and sexuality, aka sexual orientation. Since language has evolved and people have continued to be open about themselves, we have a better understanding of sexual orientation—and that knowledge will only continue to grow. But no matter what, inclusive language around sexuality matters, particularly for creating safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ folks.

Paragon Genomics, Inc., a leader in amplicon-based target enrichment solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS) and precision medicine, today reported that its CleanPlex® SARS-CoV-2 Research and Surveillance Panels for viral detection, mutation analysis, variant tracking and epidemiological research have continued to play an important role in accurately identifying COVID-19 variants of interest and concern, including early identification of the Delta and Omicron variants in patient samples and in wastewater. The company also announced the release of its Emerging Variant Add-on V2 (EVAv2), an easy-to-use addition to its SARS-CoV-2 panels that provides optimized SARS-CoV-2 coverage for new and emerging variants. With its exceptional coverage and highest confidence variant calling, EVAv2 is designed to further enhance the already high performance of the CleanPlex SARS-CoV-2 panels.