HEALTHCARE
A Las Vegas Democrat introduced a bill that would expand Medicaid coverage for vasectomies
| April 4, 2025
The bill would expand Medicaid to include care like vasectomies and birth control.It’s up to us to stop GOP attacks on healthcare access and affordability
| April 1, 2025
As Chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, I think about healthcare access every single day—because for many Nevadans, it’s not a policy issue. It’s personal. It’s about whether your child gets to see a doctor. Whether your mom can afford her insulin. Whether your neighbor can survive cancer without going bankrupt. March […]Cáncer gástrico: Hispanos en EE. UU. tienen el doble de riesgo que los blancos no hispanos
| April 1, 2025
Por Isabel Rubio, FACTCHEQUEADO Qué sabemos sobre el cáncer gástrico y por qué los hispanos en EE. UU. tienen el doble de probabilidades de ser diagnosticados y morir por esta enfermedad que los blancos no hispanos Si sólo tienes unos segundos, lee estas líneas: Las búsquedas sobre “cáncer gástrico” en Google en Estados Unidos se […]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.
