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NewsAllAggregateOfficials encourage Las Vegans to get latest COVID-19 vaccination
The Health District is expecting doses of the vaccine from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech amid rising cases and hospitalizations as a new coronavirus strain ...
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NewsAllAggregatePresenting Vegas Inc’s 2023 Health Care Headliners
The Health Care Headliners awards recognize some of the best researchers and health care providers in Southern Nevadan medicine.
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NewsHealthMaria Shriver teams with the Ruvo Center to launch the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement Prevention Center
According to Cleveland Clinic statistics, two-thirds of the 6.5 million Americans currently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are women (4.3 million), and more than half of all ...
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NewsHealthNew Las Vegas health vending machine aims to help with HIV and drug overdoses
It dispenses syringe kits, hygiene kits, wound care kits, hormone injection kits, safer sex kits, pregnancy tests and nasal naloxone, which is used for emergency ...
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NewsHealthInvestments in the Las Vegas Medical District aim to improve health outcomes
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateNevada’s experience in COVID testing illustrates lack of ongoing national verification of standards for results
The Sun found a common theme: The scope of the public health crisis created interjurisdictional confusion: city, county, state and federal health officials found themselves ...
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NewsHealthLas Vegas Valley health officials and activists gear up as monkeypox cases mount
“If it’s skin-to-skin contact ... if it’s about hugging and kissing and having sex, I mean, who doesn’t do that?”
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateMonkeypox vaccinations to start Monday in Las Vegas
The Southern Nevada Health District on Monday will start administering a limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine, the agency said. Vaccine appointments are available by ...
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NewsHealthNevada advances as other states backslide on gender-affirming health care for youth
“When trans kids are forced to detransition, it immediately undoes the progress they made in their mental health when their gender dysphoria was being treated.”
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NewsAllAggregateLas Vegas volunteer medical organization throws a lifeline to residents in need
For uninsured Nevadans, Volunteers in Medicine can be a lifeline to the costly barriers of health care in the state. The two local locations combine ...
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NewsHealthUNLVAn $11.3 million grant renewal will continue to power important Las Vegas brain research
The Center for Neurodegeneration and Translational Neuroscience, jointly operated by UNLV and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, has enrolled more than ...
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateNevada governor announces an immediate end to mask mandate
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak today announced an immediate end to the state’s mask mandate, citing a downward trend in coronavirus cases. Masks will no longer ...
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateWhy is it better to wear an N95 than a cloth mask right now?
Health experts suggest stepping up protection against the highly contagious omicron variant with stronger masks such as N95s or KN95s.
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NewsAllAggregateSex-positive clinic in downtown Las Vegas offers treatment without judgment
When Daphne Chen was younger, she paid a visit to a gynecologist to get an intrauterine device to prevent pregnancy. The gynecologist refused, she said, ...
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateNevada to distribute over 500,000 at-home COVID test kits
Nevada is getting over 500,000 at-home COVID-19 test kits to distribute to residents, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced today. Paid for by federal COVID relief funding, ...
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NewsAggregateBusinessThe show goes on at CES, but attendance noticeably lighter
While droves of showgoers looked at the latest cameras, electric vehicles and wearable tech devices, there was more elbow room than in previous years.
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateWith rising demand, UNLV moving COVID testing site to Sam Boyd Stadium
UNLV's drive-thru COVID-19 testing and vaccination site at 851 E. Tropicana Ave. is moving to Sam Boyd Stadium starting Sunday to accommodate more people.
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateMore companies backing out of Las Vegas tech show amid COVID spike
Major tech companies are continuing to back out of attending next month’s CES gadget show in Las Vegas because of rising COVID-19 cases with the ...
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NewsAggregateHome AggregateNevada governor: Time to get vaccinated is now
The best time to get vaccinated against COVID-19 was yesterday, Gov. Steve Sisolak said. “The second best time is today,” he added.
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NewsAllSportsAll about D.J.: UNLV basketball roster projection 1.0
The 2023-24 college basketball season concluded Monday with UConn’s victory over Purdue in the national championship game, but it already feels like the offseason has ...
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NewsAllAggregateWhy UFC 300 might be the most stacked top-to-bottom card in promotion history
A slightly longer-than-usual wait has stretched between the UFC staging pay-per-view cards in its home venue, T-Mobile Arena, with four months having passed since UFC ...
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A&ECirque du Soleil's Beatles-themed Las Vegas show will end after an 18-year run
The final curtain will come down this summer on Cirque du Soleil's long-running show “The Beatles Love," a cultural icon on the Las Vegas Strip ...
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Breaking News‘It doesn’t have to be this way,’ vice president tells Las Vegas audience about gun violence
Harris asked the crowd of high school students how many of them have had an active-shooter drill. Many raised their hands. “It doesn’t have to ...
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NewsAllAggregateClark County's proposed street vendor regulations threaten livelihoods, advocates say
Humberto and Mariana have been selling Latino-inspired street snacks for the past nine years in an east Las Vegas neighborhood near an elementary school off ...
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Arts & EntertainmentNewsAllFore! Sports and entertainment themed businesses taking Las Vegas by storm
Atomic Golf is the latest in an ongoing trend of sports-entertainment complexes making Las Vegas their home. And more are on their way.
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NewsAllAggregateLas Vegas companies saving time, money by converting offices instead of constructing them
The Comprehensive Digestive Institute of Nevada’s location in the southeast Las Vegas Valley boasts nearly a dozen exam rooms, a collaborative office space for physicians, ...
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NewsAllAggregateNoah Hanifin gets 8-year extension from Golden Knights
The Golden Knights gave up conditional first- and third-round draft picks last month in acquiring defenseman Noah Hanifin ..
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AllSportsAggregateUFC 300: Max Holloway scores knockout of a lifetime over Justin Gaethje
The landmark UFC 300 will be remembered for Holloway’s big moment. ...
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NewsAllAggregateHelping build middle class is Vegas real estate agent's American dream
Nora Aguirre, who was born in Mexico and grew up in North Las Vegas, said she first strayed into the world of real estate because ...
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AllSportsAggregateGolden Knights closing in on likely first-round playoff series with Oilers
The Golden Knights moved one step closer to a best-of-seven series with the Oilers starting on the road this weekend or early next week with ...
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NewsAllSportsKruger, UNLV diving into transfer portal for reinforcements
The college basketball transfer portal has been open for almost a month, and while news has been slow to trickle out of Maryland Parkway, UNLV ...
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NewsAllSportsUNLV football ready to face the changes in annual portal frenzy
The on-field action has wound down for UNLV football, with the team concluding spring practice Saturday at an open scrimmage at Allegiant Stadium. But while ...
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NewsAllSportsGolden Knights' Mark Stone cleared to return to practice after lacerated spleen
Vegas Golden Knights captain Mark Stone has been cleared to return to practice on a limited basis as he recovers from a lacerated spleen, the ...
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MusicFeaturedWomen in Vegas music: 13 innovators shaping the sound of the local scene
Some of these talents are regarded in the community as musical veterans; others represent the next generation. Regardless, each woman highlighted here contributes something special ...
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NewsAllAggregateColumn: Affordable housing is a catalyst for sustainable economic growth in Southern Nevada
The need to increase affordable and general housing stock in Nevada is undeniable as we face a severe housing shortage and mounting affordability challenges.
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DiningJunior’s brings more than its famous cheesecake to Resorts World
The Brooklyn-born Junior’s has a truly winning way with the classic dessert, and the rest of the menu is rich with the kind of deli ...
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A&ENew Las Vegas Strip spot Ole Red becoming a home for local country acts
Country star Blake Shelton’s new saloon and live music venue at Horseshoe Las Vegas is off to a fun and fast start.
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AllSportsFightingConor McGregor to return at UFC 303 in Las Vegas
The fight between McGregor and Chandler, a former Bellator champion and UFC top contender, has been in the works for more than a year since ...
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A&EWhat to do in Las Vegas this week (April 11-17, 2024 edition)
Scorpions, Sextile, Mariah Carey, “Raiding the Emo Vault,” local Celtic and Bluegrass festivals and more in this week’s Superguide.
