America is in an opioid crisis: 64,000 people overdosed last year, and more are expected to die this year. The crisis may stem in part from a single pill, Oxycontin, and its developer’s insistence that the pill was fundamentally different more »

Dr. Ronald Brown has been studying attention deficit hyperactive disorders since the late 1970s. He’s not only a renown ADHD expert, but also the Dean of UNLV’s School of Allied Health Sciences. Brown joins Nevada Health to reveal the surprising more »

Benjamin Burroughs is an assistant professor of emerging media at UNLV. His work has been published in journals such as New Media and Society, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, International Journal of Sport Communication, and Games and Culture. Assistant more »

According to researchers at Harvard University, people respond to medications differently. Genetic factors may determine the effectiveness of life-saving medications in individuals. Assistant professor at UNLV, Rhigel (Jay) A. Tan, joins us to talk about pharmacogenetics, the practice of individualizing more »