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Las Vegas Valley's immature health care system is experiencing a prolonged growth spurt. In the aftermath of the launch of UNLV's medical school, last month MountainView Hospital got word that its internal medicine residency program had been approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education…. A dearth of residency programs has greatly limited the state's ability to attract and retain doctors… Many of our medical students, or other students who are from Las Vegas, had to leave the state to get their training…"This is a significant step forward in the development of medical education in the Las Vegas Valley," said MountainView CEO Chris Mowan…Thanks to MountainView and HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) for making it happen..

Nevada State Board of Pharmacy will hold a public hearing at 9:00 a.m., on Thursday, October 15, 2015, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 7830 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, Nevada. The purpose of the hearing is to receive comments from all interested persons regarding the adoption and amendment of regulations that pertain to chapters 453 and 639 of the Nevada Administrative Code.

The following information is provided pursuant to the requirements of NRS 233B.060

Amendment of Nevada Administrative Code 453.510 - Schedule I

1. The need for and the purposed regulation or amendment

The proposed amendment to NAC 453.510 will add newly identified synthetic drugs to the list of controlled substances listed on Schedule I, and provides for other matters properly related thereto.

Nevada Health CO-OP is struggling to the end…Nevada Division of Insurance…filed a petition in Clark County District Court to place the CO-OP into a conservation-rehabilitation receivership. If the court grants the petition, the division would take control of the CO-OP's assets, distribution of funds and administration… CO-OP was created by the federal Affordable Care Act...It borrowed $65.9 million from the federal government to get off the ground…It has not made profits to pay back the loans: The CO-OP reported a $19.3 million operating loss in 2014, and losses of $22.7 million from January through June…It's the fourth of 23 Obamacare CO-OPs to fail nationwide.

Southern Nevada Health District will start offering the flu vaccine Monday at all of its centers...The health district is offering injectable, quadrivalent flu vaccine,...two influenza A viruses and two influenza B viruses. The cost of the vaccine is $41...The trivalent high-dose vaccine for people age 65 and over is $59...

Las Vegas physician stood shackled in court and pleaded not guilty Wednesday to drugging and sexually assaulting at least 14 patients, including a 16-year-old girl whose alleged attack was videotaped…An indictment filed last week accuses Bin Minh "Ben" Chung of 24 charges including lewdness, sexual assault, administering a drug in the commission of a felony, and a kidnapping charge that could bring a life sentence if he's convicted.

Roseman’s College of Pharmacy in Henderson is hosting two prominent members of the pharmacy community from Ghana. Daniel Danquah and Cynthia Anaming-Danquah are visiting with COP administrators, faculty, students and student organizations as they explore opportunities for developing an experiential rotation in Ghana for Roseman student pharmacists. They are also sharing information about pharmacy practice in an international setting.

Nevadans can rid their homes this weekend of potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs...10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back, a partnership between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Nevada Attorney General's Office,is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at four Las Vegas Valley locations:

1. Metro's northwest area command station, 9850 W. Cheyenne Ave.
2. Metro's eastern area command, 6975 W. Windmill Parkway
3. North Las Vegas Police Department's northwest area command station, 3755 W. Washburn Road
4. Anthem Senior Center lobby, 2450 Hampton Road in Henderson

A man police say posed as a doctor and treated people at an east Las Vegas Valley house has been arrested, and authorities are trying to find people who went to him for medical or dental care…Southern Nevada Health District, Las Vegas police and the FBI are requesting information from people who received services…The person who used the building identified himself as Rick Van Thiel or "Dr. Rick," health officials said, but he is not licensed to practice medicine.

..first medical residency program at MountainView Hospital has received accreditation, which means as many as 40 doctors-in-training will be working at the Las Vegas facility in July.,, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education had approved MountainView's Internal Medicine Residency Program…."Southern Nevada has been deficient in graduate medical education opportunities,"…"Many of our medical students,..who are from Las Vegas, had to leave the state to get their training…this will be a chance for those doctors to come back to Southern Nevada to start their training or continue their training and stay here and practice medicine.

Encouraging results from a drug trial to reduce agitation often felt by Alzheimer's patients and led by the director (Dr. Jeffrey Cummings) of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas were published…Journal of the American Medical Association…study tested the drug AVP-923 in participants with Alzheimer's disease and moderate-to-severe agitation…drug's success so far in the DM/Q trial will prompt a clinical phase…"The effects from the DM/Q trial were remarkable and one of the strongest we've ever seen," said… director of the Ruvo center, who led the study. "Usually it takes at least three weeks to see a change, but in this case, our participants started experiencing benefits within one week."