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None of the 60 hospitals in Nevada met the standards for strong performance needed to make the..Best Hospitals rankings for 2015-16. Renown Regional Medical Center..was recognized last year for exceeding key quality measures…In Southern Nevada, most of the acute care hospitals were rated average in the five common procedures studied.

Doctors with Lower Extremity Amputation Prevention,.. met… with Nevada Lions Club members, medical executives and health care professionals to launch the Comprehensive Foot Examination Assistant Program….The goal of the program is to provide primary care doctors with qualified assistants to provide diabetic and other at-risk patients with comprehensive foot examinations,…

...University of Nevada Medical School...Currently operating as a split school in Reno and Las Vegas, medical education and care will change dramatically in the state thanks to the 2015 Legislature,...

….to determine why the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners allowed a doctor accused of a sex crime to continue practicing, the Las Vegas Review-Journal filed court papers Friday, asking a judge to unseal records from a 2006 criminal case.

Las Vegas chiropractor (Dr. Timothy Francis) has been disciplined for having sex with a woman who was his student and patient after seducing her by claiming they were married in past lives, according to the Chiropractic Physicians Board of Nevada….on probation for three years,…also undergo testing regarding ethics and the law….

new study showing mammograms might not reduce breast cancer deaths doesn’t change the advice of Southern Nevada doctors who say women should screen themselves on a regular basis...“Mammograms remain our most important diagnostic tool to detect breast cancers at the earliest stage,...In Nevada, 1,700 women will be newly diagnosed each year, and 150 will die.

..Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from Nevada over a lawsuit that claims the state wrongfully bused indigent psychiatric patients to San Francisco without paying the costs of their medical care.

RBC...celebrates the history and value of independent pharmacy and provides numerous opportunities for independent pharmacy owners to learn how to expand and thrive in their business. (This meeting is open to Cardinal Health customers)

Clark County Medical Society announced the 2015 recipients of the Third Annual Winged Heart Award (Tammy Wert RN - University Medical Center; Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation) and the Student Rising Star Award.(Lindsey Murphy University of Nevada School of Medicine; Robert Wills - Touro University Nevada College of Medicine)...

Confusion reigned in Clark County District Court...all parties tried to determine how and why records of a sex crime case involving a Las Vegas doctor were sealed in 2006.