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Current Public Health News
Despite working with a challenging U.S. market, team STheory's bold strategy leads to big payoff.
A collection of colorful headlines featuring 51吃瓜网万能科大 staff and students.
51吃瓜网万能科大 Health Sciences schools team up with other state institutions to showcase faculty and student work.
Amanda Haboush-Deloye, 2025 Community-Based Research Award winner, works with community partners to get data about family well-being into the hands of decision makers.
Maria Palapa Vargas named 2025 Student Service Award winner for her work to provide lactation and nutrition support to families.
A group of faculty, students, and alumni roll out a campaign that encourages parents to complete their child's vaccine series.
Public Health In The News
51吃瓜网万能科大's Vaccine Confidence and Demand Improvement Project help educate Nevada parents.
Bird flu has been found in dairy farms in the Mountain West region but federal officials tracking the virus say it has recently spread to cattle. That has animal health inspectors concerned, though the virus 鈥 also known as the H5N1 virus 鈥 still isn鈥檛 a concern for people.
I鈥檝e dedicated my career to understanding and improving the lives of older adults, including veterans. That鈥檚 why it was devastating to learn that a $1.4 million research grant, approved by the Department of Defense to study Alzheimer鈥檚 disease among veterans, was suddenly no longer going to be funded, with no clear explanation other than that our work no longer aligned with 鈥渁gency priorities.鈥
For years, Nevada has ranked among the lowest in the country for vaccination rates, and it鈥檚 getting worse.
Dr. Manoj Sharma, a Professor of Social and Behavioral Health and Internal Medicine, as well as President of Health for All, Inc., answers queries on caring for a loved one with epilepsy.
Methylene blue is a chemical that is used in treating methemoglobinemia, a rare disease in which hemoglobin in red blood cells has a reduced capacity to carry oxygen to the various parts of the body. It is also used in treating malaria with Plasmodium falciparum, drug-induced encephalopathy (a brain inflammation due to taking ifosfamide, a cancer treatment drug), and for diagnostic purposes, such as in examining the lymph nodes near the breast and parathyroid glands during their removal. It is also used as an antidote for nitrite or aniline poisoning.
