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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..

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.

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.

Renown Health announced $63.7 million has been committed to capital projects in the year ahead. This marks the largest single-year investment by the organization since…in 2008…projects will range from purchasing new technology for leading-edge cancer care to building brand new facilities in growing parts of our community and renovations to improve patient safety, care and comfort.

• $7.5 million commitment toward building and technology for a newly expanded radiation treatment facility in Renown’s Institute for Cancer…with new Varian radiation technologies
• $1.8 million for a 3-D mammography tomosynthesis machine
• $3 million to upgrade 122 prescription dispensing cabinets at our three acute care hospitals and Surgical Arts facility
• $8 million to build a new comprehensive patient care facility offering a number of services including imaging, therapy, primary care, urgent care and lab services…The location and details of the new facility will be announced at a later date

...Washoe County Health District reports gastrointestinal illness outbreaks in schools and daycares have sickened about 500 students, staffers, and faculty. Health officials are working with the Washoe County School District and the daycares involved, documenting the illnesses and making recommendations to mitigate the situation, including exclusion of sick people and extensive thorough cleaning…noroviruses are responsible for the majority of cases...

Nevada has tentatively agreed to pay $400,000 to the City and County of San Francisco to settle allegations that the state wrongfully and intentionally bused psychiatric patients to the city and declined to pay the costs connected with their care…The deal, if approved by the Nevada Board of Examiners and a similar board in San Francisco, is expected to end an expensive legal battle that has lasted more than two years…The settlement will bring an amicable resolution to this matter,"…

Nevada Division of Insurance has posted 2016 health insurance rates for individual and small group markets online at http://healthrates.doi.nv.gov/Wizard.aspx,...This is the first opportunity for Nevadans who purchase health insurance on their own or as a small business to see how much it will cost in 2016. Open enrollment begins Nov. 1…

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.

We are on the verge of a healthcare crisis in America. It is apparent that the cost of prescription drugs in this country is skyrocketing out of control, and it saddens me that government is at the root of the problem…What we are experiencing today is in no way a failure of capitalism, but rather a failure of government…as it stands, federal government regulations have made it so that pharmaceutical companies can charge whatever they want for…medications, If we really want to lower the cost of prescription drugs in this country, we must allow competition to flourish. This will make it so that all drug companies have to set fair prices in order to compete…

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.