In The News: Division of Health Sciences

Specialty Pharmacy Times

Palliative care among patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) increased significantly, to 6.1% during a decade of time ending in 2014, according to new US hospital-based research.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The City of Las Vegas, along with the Health Sciences Department at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­, is assessing older homes for hazardous lead.

Associated Press

The City of Las Vegas is partnering with the University of Nevada Las Vegas to assess lead hazards in older homes.

UPI

Millions of American kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, may have a genetic vulnerability to the disease, a new study suggests.

Forbes

Remember when low-fat diets were the rage? Now fats — or some of them, anyway — are considered crucial to a healthy diet. The fact is that recent years have seen dramatic changes in which foods dietary science considers good for you and which it doesn’t.

Desert Companion

It was 34 years ago, in 1981, that the first patients of HIV were identified. Even now, there remain more than 36 million people worldwide living with HIV. In 2014, 1.2 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses. Three UNLV research professors, each manning a different front — from educational memoirs to life-saving baby showers to a possible cure — continue to make headway in this worldwide battle.

Associated Press

Researchers at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ say nearly one-third of the state's kindergarteners are overweight or obese.