Las Vegas is known as The Fight Capital of the World and researchers in Las Vegas are working to better understand long-term effects of repetitive head trauma and improve the safety of combat sports. Athletes face constant head trauma as part of their career, especially boxers, UFC fighters and NFL more »

Last year, Nevada saw the highest increase of emergency room visits for opioid overdose of any state in the West at 18 percent. The opioid crisis is going to require the convergence of medicine, law, and policy to find a solution. Here to speak about policy solutions is David Orentlicher, more »

For this episode of Nevada Health we’re joined by Dr. Scott Scherr, an emergency medicine doctor in Las Vegas, Nevada to discuss emergency medicine during the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting on Oct. 1st. Dr. Scherr is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Mountain View Hospital and Southern more »

Dr. Akhondi is a specialist in Internal Medicine and the Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program at MountainView Hospital,  part of the Sunrise Health System in Nevada. We had the opportunity to sit down with him and talk about the state of healthcare in Southern Nevada, what makes us different, and how more »

Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada (CCCN) and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) have partnered to help residents of Southern Nevada and visitors from out-of-state quit smoking. In this episode, guests Dr. Matthew Schwartz and Dr. Salvatore Biazzo talk about the #IQuitFor campaign which encourages smokers to write the more »