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Medical school dean says a culturally competent medical workforce that can reflect and relate to the community is a “moral issue.”

Welcome to 51�ԹϺ���. Today is the first of our four live shows from campus and Greenspun Hall during this, the university’s Homecoming Week.

The new, three-year dermatology residency will boost the number of available residency positions in the department from two to three.

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51�ԹϺ��� has an ambitious plan that could help the state’s ailing health care sector: get 100 doctors to move to the city.

Alexandra Wuopio, a first-year medical student at 51�ԹϺ���’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, recently spent days of intense study huddled with several classmates and one other person — someone none of them knew but who would be crucial to their training.

Spring Valley chiropractor Dr. Doug Brady is seeing an uptick in patients in recent years as more people have become educated about chiropractic care via social media.

In the last few years, the downtown Las Vegas medical district has added 51�ԹϺ���’s medical school to a pair of the valley’s largest hospitals. But, what’s missing? City leaders wanted to find out. 

Las Vegas resident Colleen Brola tried to schedule a mammogram in May at a nearby Desert Radiology, but the first available appointment was not until October. She later found one for July on the other side of town.