In The News: School of Public Health
One local young woman leads a team of UNLV students who dedicate time out of their busy class schedules to give back to Las Vegas.
Switching career paths might be a way to weather ups and downs in the job market, but those in the health sciences field seem to be able to stay put.
Who doesn't love a nice meal at a great restaurant? That is unless you get an upset stomach or worse.
A tiny European shellfish whose larvae are swarming the Colorado River and connected water bodies has colonized reservoirs and canals in the hills around the Phoenix area.
Food deserts are a problem. One solution might already exist.
If you have been sneezing and/or coughing a lot within the last week or two, there is a good explanation for that. Allergy season has arrived in Las Vegas. In fact, the pollen count for the Las Vegas area today (Feb. 26) is 8.6, which is in the medium to high range. And, it is only going to go up over the next days.
It was 34 years ago, in 1981, that the first patients of HIV were identified. Even now, there remain more than 36 million people worldwide living with HIV. In 2014, 1.2 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses. Three UNLV research professors, each manning a different front — from educational memoirs to life-saving baby showers to a possible cure — continue to make headway in this worldwide battle.
A homeowner in one Las Vegas neighborhood has health concerns about long-term exposure to dust from a neighboring construction site.
In deeply religious Nigeria, UNLV-led research finds prenatal HIV testing rates spike — decreasing chances of mother-to-infant transmission — when faith leaders get involved.
The founding dean of UNLV's School of Community Health Sciences was once known as "Dr. Herpes," because of her work studying sexually transmitted diseases for the Centers for Disease Control in the early 1980s.
It's World AIDS Day, a day when more people can become more aware of the disease and perhaps unite in the fight against HIV.
It was 34 years ago, in 1981, that the first patients of the HIV virus were identified. Today, there remain 36.9 million people worldwide living with HIV.