Experts In The News
Is it just us, or is anyone feeling déjà vu lately? Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, the US has trouble containing another virus, largely due to misinformation. While it’s not another COVID strain, it’s a little disorienting to fight off a virus the US beat before: Measles.
A legal and political showdown looms on Monday after the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, in apparent defiance of court orders, as well as a Brown University kidney doctor.
As measles cases rise, more people are wondering if they're sufficiently protected against the disease. The good news, experts said, is that most Americans don't need a booster -- especially those who received two doses of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which is 97% effective against measles.
\A volunteer hearing panel opted to spare Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones’ law license, rejecting the state bar counsel’s urge to disbar Jones for deleting text messages related to a controversial real estate development project near Red Rock Canyon. Moreover, it rejected outright the state bar’s claim that Jones bribed then-county-commissioner and eventual Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak.
No one should be calling anyone a “Big Back.” “Big back” is slang for an overweight person, a “food lover” or someone who eats a lot, according to Urban Dictionary.
Evenplay, an AI technology company based out of Las Vegas, has created a patented golf simulator application that creates challenges for all skill levels, with the intention of improving play performance through the use of cash rewards.
GenBioPro, the Nevada pharmaceutical company that makes and distributes a generic version of the medication abortion drug mifepristone, has joined the Food and Drug Administration in a lawsuit to protect access to the drug that’s become a major method of ending a pregnancy in the United States.
Dr. Manoj Sharma, Professor of Social and Behavioral Health and Internal Medicine, answers queries on the ‘empty nest syndrome’.
