In The News: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51ԹϺ
He’s as down-to-earth as they come. I met 53-year-old Benjamin Mays at the 51ԹϺ Medical School Clinic on Charleston. He was visiting its plastic surgery department.
51ԹϺ reported a record year of fundraising for fiscal year 2017.
A year after Nevada health officials closed a taxpayer-funded home where mentally ill people lived in filthy conditions, a mental health clinic continued placing people there — until reporting by the Las Vegas Review-Journal prompted state regulators to shut it down again this week.
As a former nurse and hospital administrator, longtime Las Vegas resident Roman Reid saw firsthand how homelessness drains the health care system. That’s why Reid wants the Nevada Legislature to address the issue when it next convenes.
In the bingo game that is Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s annual State of the City address, there are a few spots you can daub before play begins. She’s certain to talk longer than her appointed hour; to spend at least five to eight minutes insisting that she’s going to run long; and to invoke The Oscar. (As in, “My husband always says ‘This is the best job in the world,’” or something along those lines.) But Goodman’s 2018 address took some unexpected turns—a reflection of a city experiencing a period of explosive growth to rival the Downtown Project land rush of several years back.
The Las Vegas sports-medicine community is a small one, doctors say.
New technology and a new way of thinking could put Las Vegas on a path to better health care.
As one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the country, it’s no surprise Las Vegas has a strong economic engine.
A deranged man with an arsenal pierced the heart of Las Vegas hospitality. In the process, he revealed the often-overlooked and undersold spirit of the community.
I’m not going to tell you what to do with your baby’s placenta after birth. If the doctor lets you have it, and you would like to encapsulate it, sauté it, or even ink it to make placenta prints, that is your decision to make. But you should at least know whether scientists have found any health benefits to consuming it.
The committee tasked with deciding who qualifies for a portion of the Las Vegas Victims Fund is expected to release the final distribution plan on Friday.
As science teaches us, the human placenta is the organ responsible for metabolic exchanges between the mother and the fetus. It consists of a maternal part, or Basal Decidua, which develops from the maternal tissue, and from a fetal part, ie the corion frondosum that develops from the same blastocyst that forms the fetus.