A new study from UNLV suggests that warm Arctic seas, melting sea ice and a hot Pacific Ocean caused a hot and dry period in the Southwestern United States thousands of years ago, the likes of which have never been experienced by humans.

A systematic review of Alzheimer disease (AD) treatments currently in development demonstrate the progressive emphasis on nonamyloid targets, including candidate treatments addressing for inflammation, synapse and neuronal protection, vascular factors, neurogenesis, and epigenetic interventions.

Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings, UNLV research professor and a leading expert on Alzheimer's disease clinical trials, led a five-year review of all Alzheimer's drugs in the development pipeline. He says today there is more hope than ever that we'll one day solve Alzheimer's.

With a quarter of the workforce unemployed and lives disrupted because of the pandemic, the risk of hunger is growing in our state.

Nobody is immune to food insecurity during these perilous times, not even the university community.

There are at least a dozen trials worldwide testing low-dose radiation therapy, or LDRT, as a treatment for pneumonia related to Covid-19, some spurred by the same historical data Calabrese and colleagues scoured years ago. The theory: Targeted radiation to the lungs will halt the out-of-control inflammation responsible for the devastating pneumonia that bookends the course of some Covid-19 patients.

Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings, UNLV research professor and a leading expert on Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials, led a five-year review of all Alzheimer’s drugs in the development pipeline. He says today there is more hope than ever that we'll one day solve Alzheimer’s.

“Since COVID hit, I’ve been exercising outside. But in the heat, how can I stay cool while working out?”

UNLV’s food pantry is getting a much-needed lifeline in the form of a $250,000 federal grant from the CARES Act.

UNLV's food pantry is getting a much-needed lifeline in the form of a $250,000 federal grant from the CARES Act.

The UNLV Cares Food Pantry has received $250,000 in federal funding to support students, faculty and staff, Rep. Dina Titus announced Thursday.

The UNLV Department of Brain Health has formally launched the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, offering hope through scientific discovery for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s, dementia and other brain and neurological diseases. The center is the latest in a series of milestones from the department and the School of Integrated Health Sciences to better understand how a healthy brain functions, to improve care and treatment of people with brain diseases, and to identify mechanisms of brain disorders.