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Approximately 39,000 jobs were created in education and health services in the valley over the past decade through 2025, beating out trade, transportation and utilities (37,2000), according to new statistics from the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, which used data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Nearly half of U.S. generic prescriptions originate in India, which relies on the Strait of Hormuz for the arrival of key inputs in drug manufacturing including petroleum-based materials, and for shipping finished medicines to the U.S.

Congresswoman Dina Titus is set to announce a new grant of more than $1 million supporting ÐÔÊӽ紫ý’s Instrumentation for Pathogen Detection in Water project on Thursday. The funding will be used to purchase new equipment that can measure pathogen levels in water and strengthen public health and water security efforts across Nevada.

Could a new kind of blood test find cancer early, even before symptoms appear?

A big milestone for 66 ÐÔÊӽ紫ý medical students as they receive their white coats, marking the next phase of their medical education.

The white-coat ceremony, held at the Artemus Ham Concert Hall on the university’s main campus, signifies the shift from student to student-physician, as participants will begin working alongside doctors in caring for patients during the final two years of medical school.

The new report, published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, involved medical experts and researchers in dementia from the National Institutes of Health in Baltimore, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C.

The ÐÔÊӽ紫ý School of Medicine, which opened in 2017, is a foundational partner in the Las Vegas Medical District. Dean Allison Netski said a centralized medical hub is key to retaining graduates in the state.

Results showed orthopedic surgery made up 25% of suicides in the National Violent Death Reporting System database.

Millions of people already turn to chatbots for everyday advice — and now tech companies may want it to answer your health questions too. A new program from Open AI is designed to analyze medical records, fitness apps and wearable data to offer health guidance. As more people look to artificial intelligence for medical answers, experts are raising important questions about safety, accuracy and privacy.

GLP-1s have been a breakthrough for obesity and diabetes. A 2022 study examined data from trials of GLP-1s in nearly 16,000 patients with diabetes, and showed that the drugs were associated with a 53% reduction in dementia risk.

A new study from the American Heart Association (AHA) warns the number of women living with cardiovascular disease could rise in the coming years.