In The News: Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine
A new study out of UNLV has found a link between smoking and cases of bone fractures among men.
Your genes govern appearance and blood type, but they're also responsible for a whole lot more.
Data from what the Las Vegas Valley is flushing shows a deep decline in omicron, but a spike in the so-called “stealth omicron” variant, scientists at UNLV tell the 8 News Now I-Team.
If you think your office is stuffy or dusty or all-around dirty--maybe it is. But that air you're breathing when you're there might just be better than what you breathe in at home. We look into the findings of a new study that may have you thinking a lot more about ventilation systems than you ever imagined.
A wastewater tracking program at University of Nevada Las Vegas will have its data shared nationwide, as the The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to track the next COVID-19 surge.
Just as the omicron wave of COVID-19 cases showed signs of receding, the Southern Nevada Health District on Friday announced that it had detected the state’s first case of a worrisome new variant known as BA.2.
Just as the omicron wave of COVID-19 cases showed signs of receding, the Southern Nevada Health District on Friday announced that it had detected the state’s first case of a worrisome new variant known as BA.2.
When UNLV researchers want to predict the path of the pandemic they pop open a manhole.
Edwin Oh, an associate professor at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, was among the first to discover the omicron variant in Clark County.
Wastewater surveillance is becoming more widespread in the U.S. to fight COVID-19.
Las Vegas researchers predict that most news cases of COVID-19 in Southern Nevada for at least the next three weeks will be caused by the more contagious but seemingly milder omicron variant.