Gov. Steve Sisolak and state and local health officials reassured the public on Friday that necessary steps are being taken to guard against the spread of the new coronavirus.
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.
Plans in place for dealing with a flu pandemic are being fine-tuned as public health authorities and health-care providers prepare for possible new coronavirus outbreak here.
St. Rose Dominican Hospital, San Martin campus, in January became the first hospital in the Las Vegas Valley to offer women nitrous oxide during childbirth.
A Henderson couple home from the MS Westerdam cruise ship said they were told by a health official to monitor for coronavirus symptoms.
Dr. Miriam Adelson used the occasion of the 20th anniversary celebration of her Las Vegas drug treatment clinic to propose “cracking down on cannabis.”
Patients describe the difference the clinic made in helping them turn the page on their drug addictions.
Their vessel was turned away from at least 11 ports of call out of fears that passengers could spread the new coronavirus from China.
Eleven people died of the flu in Clark County during the last week in January, bringing the seasonal total to 24, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
The Southern Nevada Health District is monitoring an undisclosed number of Clark County residents who recently returned from mainland China for the new coronavirus.
The Chinese-American community in Las Vegas launches a drive for donations and medical supplies much in need in Chinese hospitals in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Two new deaths from the flu have been recorded in Clark County in the past week, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
A Clark County resident with a possible case of the 2019 novel coronavirus has tested negative, the Southern Nevada Health District announced Sunday. .
Las Vegas resident Hanna Olivas, who emerged as a right-to-die advocate following her blood cancer diagnosis, has created a nonprofit to assist others living with the disease.
The resident has been discharged from a local hospital and is in isolation at home, said the Southern Nevada Health District, which is awaiting test results from the CDC.
While the global spread of the new coronavirus from China grabs headlines, the flu already has sickened 15 million people in the U.S. and killed about 8,200 this season.
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