Monday’s Red Cross blood drive spurs competition between North Las Vegas fire and police departments.
Mary Hynes
Mary Hynes returned to the Review-Journal in August 2019 as the newspaper’s health reporter after working in public affairs and communications for MGM Resorts International. She previously worked as an editor and a reporter at the RJ. The University of Colorado graduate also worked as a reporter at newspapers in Colorado. She is a native of Oregon.
State and federal authorities are investigating outbreaks in Southern Nevada of drug-resistant fungus Candida auris, which can lead to serious illness and even death.
The city of Las Vegas contracted with Northshore Clinical Labs to provide limited COVID-19 testing early this year, a city representative said this week.
State and federal health authorities are investigating ongoing outbreaks at Nevada hospitals and nursing homes of a drug-resistant “superbug” that can lead to serious illness and even death.
Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen will introduce a bipartisan bill to locate more federally funded medical residencies in areas with the greatest need.
Sigal Chattah and Tisha Black are fighting for the right to challenge Democratic incumbent Attorney General Aaron Ford in November.
Erica Mosca and James Fennell are returning candidates seeking to replace the term-limited Assemblywoman Maggie Carlton.
Incumbent Democratic Assemblywoman Cecelia Gonzalez faces a longtime court administrator and three Republicans in her bid for re-election in AD16.
Four Republican candidates are seeking to replace Assemblywoman Annie Black, who is running for Congress. No Democrat entered the race.
New omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1, believed to be better at evading immunity from natural infection and vaccination, is on the rise in Clark County, a health official said.
Hundreds of others have been infected with COVID-19 at least three times, according to new data from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.
Nevada already is seeing some patients from states where abortions have been restricted, abortion advocates say.
With help from a Henderson military family, an Afghan evacuee seeks safe passage for his wife and parents trapped in Afghanistan.
In 1947, seven nuns took over operations of Henderson’s Basic Magnesium Hospital that would become Rose de Lima hospital.
Gov. Steve Sisolak and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Berra have pledged millions for crisis stabilization centers and for three-digit emergency lifeline.