The new clinic at All Saints Episcopal Church in central Las Vegas will provide testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and other services.
Mary Hynes
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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.
Launching “Health Care Week in Nevada,” he delivers flowers to a Las Vegas nurse practitioner and hears from members of a group of nurses from the Philippines.
The coronavirus variant’s mutations pose great concern, but their impact on the severity of disease is not yet known.
When Kabul fell, a Henderson military family stepped up to help an Afghan who had worked for a U.S. government contractor in his homeland find his stride in a faraway place.
It is not unusual for patients recovering from certain viruses, such as West Nile virus or even the flu, to have ongoing complications. But long COVID is more prevalent, more severe and longer lasting.
Over the cries of protesters, public health officials urge parents to get their kids inoculated as community clinics begin administering pediatric doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Some workers received exemptions, but not for “political positions and scientifically inaccurate reasons,” a St. Rose Dominican hospital representative said.
Pharmacies, clinics and doctor’s offices in Southern Nevada were gearing up Wednesday to give the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine to kids as young as 5.
MountainView and Sarah Cannon, the cancer institute of HCA HealthCare, are offering the treatment to patients with blood cancers and blood disorders who previously have had to leave the state for a transplant, the hospital said.
The Southern Nevada Health District announced Tuesday that booster shots of the Moderna and Johnson Johnson vaccine, in addition to the Pfizer vaccine, are available at its clinics for those who are eligible.
Lab director Mark Pandori, who worked briefly at the Silicon Valley startup, is a possible witness in the criminal fraud trial of Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
Supply of universal blood type at lowest level since early in the pandemic, according to the nonprofit blood supplier Vitalant.
Hospitals in rural Nevada still face shortages of beds, staff and supplies as they bear the brunt of the delta surge that has waned elsewhere in the state, officials said Thursday.
Emma Burkey, who suffered a devastating COVID-19 vaccine side effect, is undergoing nearly 30 hours of physical therapy each week as she fights to regain her ability to walk.
As the delta wave of COVID-19 recedes, optimism has crept into the public discussion: Could the worst be behind us? Experts say it could be, but many unknowns remain.
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