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School of Integrated Health Sciences News

With many degree offerings that are accredited by national organizations, the School of Integrated Health Sciences offers dynamic classroom instruction, laboratory/clinical practice, research, and mentoring. Our students develop skills that help them break into health-related fields and further their graduate or professional studies.

Current Integrated Health Sciences News

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Research |

Six-year study reveals that closely following Mediterranean and DASH diets is linked with lower cardiovascular disease risk.

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Campus News |

News highlights featuring UNLV students and staff who made (refreshing) waves in the headlines.

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Campus News |

Students compete through hands-on STEM projects while learning about the possibilities of a UNLV education.

Haven Searcy holds bottle up while wearing UNLV shirt
Research |

At UNLV, Haven Searcy gains two degrees and experience analyzing the effects of radiation on the environment.

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Campus News |

News highlights starring UNLV students and faculty who made local and national headlines.

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Research |

Alzheimer’s treatment studies offer hope as UNLV expert predicts new potential drugs, biomarkers will yield critical insight for future development.

Integrated Health Sciences In The News

CGTLive

The FDA has granted both Fast Track and Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapeutic (RMAT) Designations to Longeveron's Lomecel-B investigational allogeneic medicinal signaling cell (MSC) therapy for the potential treatment of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD).1,2.

Real Simple

By the time late afternoon rolls around, so does that lethargic and unproductive sensation you’ve worked all day to avoid. The feeling is more commonly known as a ‘midday slump,’ or the dip in energy we experience halfway through the day. It’s easy to wonder if afternoon slumps show up like clockwork, but it’s actually the food we eat that helps drive (or curtail) our energy levels. That means there's a solution.

MSN

A supplement long used in fitness circles to beef up muscles may be coming to a Meal, Ready to Eat, or MRE, near you. Congress could soon ask the military to look at including creatine in MREs, the staples of field nutrition across the military.

Washington News Post

Eating patterns aligned with the Mediterranean or DASH diets may reduce cardiovascular disease risk in adults with Type 1 diabetes, according to findings from a six-year study led by researchers at UNLV and the University of Colorado.

ArchyWorldys

There is a craze for walking barefoot. This is not a phenomenon exclusive to our country. The number of people who take off their shoes is increasing not only in Australia and New Zealand, where the culture of walking barefoot has taken hold, but also in Europe and the United States.

Donga.com

The barefoot walking craze is here. It’s not just a phenomenon in our country. In Australia and New Zealand, where the barefoot walking culture is established, as well as in Europe and the United States, the number of people taking off their shoes is increasing.

Integrated Health Sciences Experts

An international expert on neurodegenerative diseases and brain health.
An expert in human body movement, the physics of sports, and running.
An expert in behavioral neuroscience with concentrations in Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia.
An expert in biomechanics
An expert in biokinesiology.
An expert in nutrition, food and ethnic issues, and dietetics.

Recent Integrated Health Sciences Accomplishments

John Mercer and UNLV alumnus Boram Lim (both Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published research titled, "Energetics and basic stroke kinematics of swimming with different styles of wetsuits," in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. Mercer is Lim's doctoral advisor.
Jennifer Nash (Physical Therapy), Janet S. Dufek (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and colleagues published a manuscript titled, "The Influence of Sport-Related Concussion on Cognition and Landing Biomechanics in Collegiate Athletes," in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. This interdisciplinary investigation examined…
Janet S. Dufek (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) was recently elected as Nominating Committee Co-Chair for the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB). Founded in 1977, the ASB embraces the interdisciplinarity of biomechanics and supports the largest membership of any biomechanics-focused professional organization in North America. Dufek…
Randy Reichenfeld (Radiography), a PTI and MR technologist, will be giving this year's MR Safety Week presentation for the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT). Chad Hensley, director of UNLV's radiography program, gave the safety presentation during last year's annual meeting, marking the second year in a row that a…
Chad Cross (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Louisa Messenger, Miklo Alcala (both Environmental and Occupational Health), and Bryson Carrier (Integrated Health Sciences) presented "Soil-transmitted helminths in the United States: using big data to characterize patients and analyze disease trends" during the 100th anniversary annual meeting of the…
Faculty Sara Rosenkranz, Andrew Hooyman, Richard Rosenkranz (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), along with students Chris Acosta, Jose Hidalgo, CindyRomina Ballesteros Paniagua (all Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), and Daniela Gonzalez-Alvarez (Social and Behavioral Health) presented compelling research on infant formula…