In The News: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
In the final episode of The Killing Drugs, host Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with Dr. Lisa Durette and Dr. Alexis Kennedy of the ҳ| 鶹ýӳ, about the impact of the fentanyl and opioid epidemics on young people. They explore risk factors leading to substance use disorders among the young, including developmental vulnerabilities, the social environment, and trauma and abuse. They discuss the challenges in identifying opioid use in adolescents, how to have conversations with young people about drugs, and the importance of community and family involvement in prevention. Finally, they explore treatment and other drug support services available to young people or their lack of, including in the juvenile justice system.
In the final episode of The Killing Drugs, host Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with Dr. Lisa Durette and Dr. Alexis Kennedy of the ҳ| 鶹ýӳ, about the impact of the fentanyl and opioid epidemics on young people. They explore risk factors leading to substance use disorders among the young, including developmental vulnerabilities, the social environment, and trauma and abuse. They discuss the challenges in identifying opioid use in adolescents, how to have conversations with young people about drugs, and the importance of community and family involvement in prevention. Finally, they explore treatment and other drug support services available to young people or their lack of, including in the juvenile justice system.
In this episode, Vanda Felbab-Brown discusses the fentanyl and opioid crisis in Nevada with Dr. Anne Weisman and Dr. Sara Hunt of the ҳ| 鶹ýӳ (UNLV). They analyze the high rates of opioid misuse in the state and the resulting strain on health systems and behavioral health workers as well as coroners, a professional group essential in responding to drug use, but often neglected in policy focus. Their conversation explores the significant innovations that the state of Nevada adopted as a result of UNLV research and policy work and ways in which it can serve as an exemplar to other U.S. localities struggling with inadequate resources to deal with fentanyl.
Ten years after he and his wife experienced a pregnancy loss, Eli Schiff still gets a bit choked up talking about his experience with miscarriage. “You’re imagining all the things that he or she could be, you know, and that imagination or that idea of what they could have been, it doesn’t really go away,” he says of the grief associated with miscarriage.
For more than three decades, the federal government sought to make amends to countless Americans who developed cancer after being exposed to radiation from nuclear testing in the Southwest or while working in the uranium mining industry.
“Can you imagine a day when you turn on your faucet and no water comes out?” The hypothetical question, posed by a research team at UNLV, is called a “Day Zero” scenario. It sounds like the plot of a doomsday apocalypse series but it’s not as unimaginable - or as far-fetched - as a Hollywood screenplay might seem.
As the temperature starts to drop in southern Nevada, we were wondering if the colder weather can really make you sick? Dr. David Weismiller, a professor of family medicine at UNLV, joined ARC Las Vegas and Evan Schreiber to talk about the correlation.
Once medical students have completed medical school and received their medical degree, what is the next step? Could they immediately start their own practice and see patients?
The study was led by Mary Froehlich, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, ҳ| 鶹ýӳ.
The Down Syndrome Connections Las Vegas announced DS Connect24, the 3rd Annual Las Vegas Down Syndrome Conference was held on Saturday. October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month. The event was held at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine on the campus of UNLV.
A new survey shows one-third of former professional football players believe they have the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. The research, published in the medical journal JAMA Neurology, represents one of the latest expansive surveys on cognitive health issues caused by contact sports.
The first alert about the horror typically comes from a call, text, or emergency radio transmission that might seem unremarkable: There’s been a shooting; prepare to treat some victims. The initial message often conveys little sense of mass tragedy, no warning that the health care team is about to go through a challenge that will test and change them.
