HEALTHCARE
As AI nurses reshape hospital care, human nurses are pushing back
March 20, 2025
Hospitals are using AI to predict medical issues and guide care, but it often leads to false alarms and unsafe advice. In Henderson, a nurse was mistakenly alerted by the system to give fluids to a dialysis patient flagged for sepsis, which would have overloaded the patients kidneys.
Nevada officials, veterans worry VA cuts could impact access to healthcare and other benefits
March 13, 2025
VA branches that cover Nevada, which is home to more than 200,000 veterans, employ a combined roughly 4,800 full-time employees and complete more than one million healthcare visits each year — leaving some worried that any cuts to the agency will impact their wellbeing. Amid recently announced plans to eliminate roughly 82,000 jobs at the […]Quién es Robert F. Kennedy Jr., el abogado antivacunas confirmado por el Senado como secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos
February 21, 2025
Tras ganar las elecciones, el presidente electo Donald Trump nombró al activista antivacunas Robert F. Kennedy Jr. como secretario de Salud y Servicios Humanos. El 13 de febrero de 2025, el Senado confirmó a Kennedy Jr. en este cargo con una votación de 52 a 48.New strain of bird flu is detected in a Nevada dairy worker, CDC says
February 11, 2025
By Mike Stobbe and Jonel Aleccia According to state health officials, the dairy worker was exposed at a farm in Churchill County, in the west central part of the state. NEW YORK (AP) — A dairy worker in Nevada was infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has […]Wage increase shows early success in stabilizing Nevada home care workforce
January 31, 2025
Seniors have officially outnumbered children for the first time in US history. But Nevada’s new minimum wage increase for care workers offers a model to address a looming crisis. A groundbreaking minimum wage increase for Nevada’s home care workers has dramatically improved workforce stability, offering potential solutions as America faces an unprecedented demographic shift in […]Registró Nevada Health Link un récord de inscripciones en su período de inscripción abierta de 2025
January 27, 2025
Registró Nevada Health Link un récord de inscripciones en su período de inscripción abierta de 2025.
