Nevadans need more nurses. Demand nationally will increase by 15 percent between now and 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And nursing is great for Nevadans: With a median pay of $70,000 per year, the field offers a solid middle-class lifestyle.

Disturbing new details have emerged on the alleged murder of a Las Vegas valley 2-year-old child.

Nevada needs more nurses, and with the help of a $900,000 grant from the Governor's Office of Economic Development, UNLV's School of Nursing hopes to meet that demand.

Nursing is one of the fastest-growing occupations in the country. But challenges facing the health care industry could affect the ability to adequately staff the profession in a profound way.

UNLV has climbed four spots in the annual ranking of best online graduate nursing programs by U.S. News &World Report.

WITH little cash in his pocket and an extra large suitcase filled with newly tailored nurse uniforms, Dr. Rhigel Jay Tan, 22, left the country in 1994 to try his luck in the US.

Rhigel “Jay” Tan knew there had to be a better way. Like many of his colleagues, the UNLV professor and psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner had long been skeptical of the trial-and-error approach to prescribing medicine for mental health patients.

Finding reliable objective measures for chronic pain is an important step to advancing pain management. Recently, investigators have identified a variety of pain biomarkers, understood as integral to nociceptive functioning, and have used them as therapeutic targets when assessing exercise as an intervention for chronic pain conditions. However, could such biomarkers function as actual objective measures for chronic pain, as well?

If you are a typical American, especially one who was born and raised here as we were, you probably believe—know—as we did that, Americans have a lock on fried chicken. Then we met Salve Vargas Edelman, who took us to her favorite Manila chicken joint. But this place, Max’s Restaurant, wasn’t in Manila. It was in Las Vegas, in a strip mall, a few miles past Caesars Palace, and it was there that we were fortuitously, deliciously, humbled.