Topic: health and medicine

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Research | December 16, 2024

UNLV Brain Health researcher Lina Nih is developing a treatment that could one day alter how practitioners address stroke recovery.

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Research | December 12, 2024

Life Sciences professor Prasun Guha has the 'guts' to explore the connections between gastrointestinal health and disease.

David N. Jackson, MD, FACOG
People | December 10, 2024

Dr. David Jackson shares how Gynecologic Surgery and Obstetrics' priorities include training physicians, providing elite care, and establishing transformational research.

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People | December 9, 2024

This hygienist has found a bright future as an instructor in UNLV's School of Dental Medicine.

Dr. Beverly Neyland (left), professor of pediatrics, and Dr. Rebecca Scherr, interim chair of the department of pediatrics.
People | November 26, 2024

Dr. Rebecca Scherr was not only a patient of Dr. Beverly Neyland's from birth, but a student of hers during her medical school training.

Graphic with words on screen, The Killing Drugs: Synthetic Opioids Around the World
Business and Community | October 31, 2024

Brookings Mountain West and UNLV health care and criminal justice faculty experts partner with Washington think tank on podcast series addressing the opioid abuse epidemic.
 

Erik N. Kubiak, MD
Business and Community | October 29, 2024

Dr. Erik Kubiak believes the future of orthopaedics is to become more holistic, to the benefit of patients.