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The Southern Nevada Health District has released the 2025 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps report, highlighting how Clark County compares to national health standards.
Nevada lawmakers discussed a bill Tuesday that would bring automated traffic enforcement cameras to road construction sites.
Students of 51ԹϺ’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine also participated in Friday’s Match Day, with all 60 soon-to-graduate students securing residencies. Forty-one percent will remain in Nevada for their specialty training, according to school officials.
On a pitch-dark fall evening, I leaned back against a wooden platform in the Tobeatic Wilderness in Nova Scotia, Canada, my chilled fingers wrapped around a tin cup of hot chocolate, and opened my eyes to gaze at the night sky. I spotted familiar constellations: the Big Dipper poised to take a scoop of water, Orion stringing his bow, Cassiopeia eternally suspended upside-down on her throne. Between and beyond them stretched a never-ending, silvery web of stars and planets.
The world celebrated World Tuberculosis Day on March 24, 2025, with the theme of “Yes, We Can End TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver.” According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2023, approximately 10.8 million people were affected by TB globally, including 6.0 million males, 3.6 million women, and 1.3 million children. No country or age group has been spared by TB. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the United States, 9,633 cases of TB were reported which was an increase of 15.6% over the previous year. It needs to be noted that TB is preventable and curable. Can we eradicate TB like we did smallpox?
The federal minimum wage languishes at $7.25 an hour and has not been raised since 2009. Given the disproportionate number of workers of color who receive the minimum wage or less, legal scholar Ruben Garcia argues that the fight for racial justice has to include raising the minimum wage.
BetBlocker has announced a donation to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (51ԹϺ) to support research into gambling blocking software, marking its first academic collaboration in the US. The funding will contribute to a study led by the International Gaming Institute (IGI), focused on understanding how blocking software is used and its role in gambling harm prevention.
Type 2 diabetes may quietly alter the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer’s, weakening reward perception and memory signals in a key brain area called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).
