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Chief District Judge David Barker today denied a request to disqualify the judge assigned to a medical malpractice case against Summerlin Hospital…Ruben White, who claims malpractice led to the tuberculosis-related deaths of his wife and twin daughters at the hospital, had asked District Judge Joe Hardy Jr. to withdraw from the case because of an appearance of impropriety…. The court finds that a reasonable person, knowing all the facts, would not harbor doubts about Judge Hardy's impartiality…White argued in a motion for recusal that Hardy's father, Republican state Sen. Joe Hardy, has an economic interest in the outcome of the case. White indicated he plans to file a motion in the case asking that the state's cap on medical malpractice damages be declared unconstitutional, and he argued that the judge's father has been "an active opponent" of removing the cap.

Young men have a new opportunity to receive reproductive health services from the Southern Nevada Health District…Men's Health Center inside the East Las Vegas Public Health Center at 560 N. Nellis Blvd. opens Tuesday.. Services include a basic health assessment, and nursing staff will provide counseling and education regarding family planning, reproductive health, risk factors for sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and safe sexual practices.

A Las Vegas doc rocks, mocks and thinks outside the (pill) box..ZDoggMD’s music videos....are kind of homemade and the backup crew looks like those guys in scrubs hanging out around the hospital nurses’ station. Oh, wait, they are the guys in scrubs....ZDogg is Zubin Damania, a Stanford-trained doctor with a clinical practice called Turntable Health in Las Vegas and a stated goal of developing better models of patient care...he’s also been doing parodies of pop music videos on medical themes: Obamacare, pain, prostate disease, bad nurses, getting into medical school, colon disease, addiction, dozens and dozens more. "You’re gonna hear me snore!" he sings about sleep apnea to the tune of Katy Perry’s "Roar." "Friends With Low Platelets," is a Garth Brooks takeoff on a blood condition. "Big Pharma" parodies Biggie’s "Big Poppa."

Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada and the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center…announced a partnership to provide treatment and cooperation in clinical trials…USC Norris brand joins the Cleveland Clinic, Stanford Hospital and other distinguished names affiliated with health care providers in Southern Nevada… Such partnerships widen the scope of therapies and procedures available in Southern Nevada..

Clark County man has become the first documented West Nile virus patient of 2015 in Southern Nevada…The man over the age of 50 has the more serious form of the illness, according to the Southern Nevada Health District… Environmental health specialists routinely survey known breeding sources for mosquitoes and trap them for identification and disease analysis…The health district has collected West Nile positive mosquitoes this year in 22 local ZIP codes: 89011, 89012, 89014, 89025, 89027, 89029, 89031, 89074, 89107, 89113, 89117, 89118, 89119, 89123, 89128, 89129, 89130, 89131, 89134, 89143, 89146 and 89147.

Clark County's only medical marijuana dispensary was forced to close its doors for nearly a week after it ran out of supplies due to widespread failures in the safety tests performed on growers' crops…Euphoria Wellness plans to reopen Tuesday morning, having closed last week on Wednesday afternoon,… Any marijuana sold in Nevada must first be tested and approved by a state-licensed laboratory. The marijuana must meet strict standards approved by the state, including what amounts to a zero-tolerance rule for pesticides.

Six Southern Nevada physicians have been honored by a nonprofit organization committed to improving access and delivery of medical care in the region. This year's Inspired Excellence in Health Care awards from Las Vegas HEALS (Health Education Advocacy Leadership of Southern Nevada) go to…

1. Joseph Adashek - Desert Perinatal Associates, Summerlin, Southern Hills and Valley hospitals, Angel Flight
2. Rutu Ezhuthachan – United Healthcare, Southern Nevada Immunization and Health Coalition, Immunize Nevada
3. Mitchell Forman - founding dean Touro Univerity (University) College of Osteopathic Medicine
4. Oscar Goodman Jr. - Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, Roseman University of Health Sciences
5. David Steinberg - Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging, American College of Nuclear Medicine
6. Dylan Wint - Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy visited the Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday on the first stop of his national campaign to promote walking and walkable communities…Murthy greeted students and parents of Tate Elementary School,…to promote the health benefits of walking and drawing attention to communities that lack safe and convenient places to walk or use their wheelchairs...

Silva Farra deserves creature comforts after delivering twins…The 37-year-old mother…is still in the hospital and will be for months…Dougie and Donnie…will be in the neonatal intensive care unit of Spring Valley Hospital and Medical Center until at least mid-November…The more the parents can be there, the better…Hospitalized children need the presence of their parents, family member or other trusted friends throughout their treatment and recovery. Neonatal intensive care units can be the most important place for that company.

UNLV (University of Nevada Las Vegas) and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health have been awarded an $11.1 million federal grant to advance the understanding of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases…is aimed at increasing knowledge of dementia-related and age-associated degenerative disorders…will create a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence,..part of a program that promotes the study of medicine, molecular biology and public health.