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.
