In The News: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Two state troopers died last week, hit by a driver on Interstate 15 in Las Vegas. The suspected driver in the crash is being held on a $500,000 bail. It was quite the sight when law enforcement formed a procession of vehicles to escort the bodies of the two men. And people are outraged.
The path to medicine for John deVries, M.D., was far from traditional. Up through a stint in graduate school, the Detroit native worked in a variety of jobs, including construction, truck driving and gravedigging. DeVries continues to work with his hands today as chief of City of Hope’s Division of Orthopaedic Surgery. He also sees another way that the earlier entries on his resume prepared him for a career in oncology.
Wearing earplugs might seem trivial to the seasoned concertgoer, but if you want to avoid hearing damage this festival season, hear us out. “Once it’s done, there isn’t anything that you can do to reverse it,” UNLV Health senior audiologist Jennifer Cornejo says.
An endowment of $1.05 million will fund career development for women in sports, according to a Wednesday news release from the UNLV Athletics Department. The Diana Bennett Career Development Program for Women’s Sports will provide internship programming, resume building, career professional development and a variety of networking and job experience initiatives. The program is part of the “Rebel Up” Campaign, the Athletics Department said.
You are likely well aware of how to maintain a healthy body and functional mind – with a daily dose of exercise, a good nights’ sleep, and a balanced diet, right? – but what about the one topic you’ve been avoiding? The one that keeps resurfacing under the sheets that can hold you back from being intimate with yourself and others? When your sex drive is dwindling and you are unable to rise to the occasion, it can feel embarrassing and isolating, but you are not alone.
All 12 Women's National Basketball Association teams have a team of trained orthopedic surgeons and physicians providing care for them.
If you haven't heard the terms autosexual or autoeroticism, you're not alone. These two sexual identities and their meanings are still relatively unknown and rarely discussed. But in recent years, there's been more representation of autosexuals who experience autoeroticism in mainstream media.
We're committed to digging deeper into the health care issues affecting our community. Here in southern Nevada, we face a major physician shortage. However, there's good news. The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV is taking major steps toward bringing new doctors into the valley.
Increasing manmade and natural disasters require new thinking about the role of health care staff, effective triaging, community partnerships, and security.
Making health care more accessible for our under-served communities is the goal of a collaboration between the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada.
A portion of the spin4 crohn’s & colitis cures event will support the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV to help expand resources for IBD patients in Southern Nevada.
It doesn’t appear on the calendar. There are no shopping days devoted to it. No one even remotely looks forward to its arrival. But for those afflicted by its wrath, allergy season is as real as any other time of year, bringing with it sneezes, runny noses and fatigue instead of glad tidings and good feelings.