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Patients of a jailed Las Vegas doctor accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women in his care say they are being told they must pay excessive amounts of money to retrieve their own medical records….they have been told they must pay $20 for the paperwork kept in Dr. Binh Chung's office… may not be in line with Nevada law.

• Provider Status Update - Christopher Tolopeski, Director of Federal Regulatory Affairs of American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
• Management of Medications in a Hospice and Palliative Care Patient - Justin Kullgren, PharmD, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, South University College of Pharmacy and Hospice and Palliative Care
• Melanoma: Considerations in Pharmacotherapy - Jacob Frick, PharmD, Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Management of Bipolar Disorder - Heather Mooney-Magallon, PharmD, Mental Health and Ambulatory Care, Sierra Nevada VA HCS

Traditional medicines like Suboxone and Methadone is (are) being sold on the streets to increase profits for addicts or drug dealers…With heroin's popularity back on the rise, addicts and dealers are using medicines to treat heroin addiction, like Suboxone and Methadone, to sell or trade on the black market..

School of Medicine and UNLV co-administer grant to foster research that will improve health...mission is "to increase the quantity, quality, and number of successful NIH grant applications in clinical and translational research." Clinical research studies answer specific health questions. Translational research implements a "bench to bedside" process of applying laboratory knowledge to produce new drugs, devices and treatment options for patients.

…far from building an artificial organ, a breakthrough system being developed with the help of two alums from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is bringing the diabetic community closer to one than ever before…Tomas Walker and Aimee Jose, who graduated…from...nursing school, are each playing a role in the creation of a so-called artificial pancreas system,..works like this: Three separate components with tiny needles are attached to the wearer's abdomen. The first two are pumps — one is filled with the insulin hormone, and the second is filled with another hormone called glucagon…third is a continuous glucose monitor,.. it tells the pumps how frequently they should secrete hormones into the body to regulate blood sugar levels.

University Medical Center(Las Vegas),...doctors can reach deep into the lungs to diagnose cancer — without using a scalpel… hospital's superDimension ™ Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy ™ system extends the bronchoscope's reach into smaller airways. Catheters can be accurately placed into lesions outside the tube's field of view… Pulmonologists such as Dr. Hidenobu Shigemitsu can stage suspicious areas for biopsy and treat cancers found in the lungs…Lung GPS™Technology minimizes invasiveness and results in early detection of cancers.

Contrary to popular belief, many people are coming to Las Vegas for their specialized health care needs. Camille de Leon, 26, and her husband, Rodney Yu, 23, turned to the oncologists and surgeons….when son Anthony, 6, was diagnosed with clear cell sarcoma….he was transferred to Sunrise Hospital, where his kidney was removed…. settled in for an extended stay at the Ronald McDonald House… prolonged chemotherapy treatment at the Cure 4 the Kids Foundation infusion center….

Patients seeking medical care in and around the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center now have convenient access for many medical services…facility …provides the following services: occupational health, physicals for the Department of Transportation and urgent care…the addition of the Tesla gigafactory to the industrial park, the need for new services is only expected to grow…

Las Vegas physician (osteopathic medicine) in practice for more than 20 years in Southern Nevada lost his license…for code of conduct violations..Dr. David Moon of Accelerated Rehabilitation and Pain Center had been accused of poor record keeping, improper prescribing practices, failing to supervise his physician assistants and issues involving his arrest…in  2013….

Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $12.1 million contract….to build a long-awaited new health care clinic for veterans in Pahrump…Sen. Dean Heller,… who sits on the Senate's veterans committee, said the new clinic "brings much-needed health care access to local veterans."