In The News: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ

Gov. Steve Sisolak joins the thousands of Nevadans to test positive for COVID-19.

Southern Nevada reported 869 new positive COVID-19 Tuesday and five more deaths. Cases are up to more than 90,000 since the pandemic began.
After the painful loss of their son Jack in September, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen have been incredibly intimate and vulnerable about sharing their grief. Last week, Teigen revealed a new tattoo in her son's memory: his name "Jack" written in cursive on the inside of her wrist. Legend, who clutched his wife's hand in the original image showcasing her photo, also got a matching piece in the same place in honor of their late son.
At the start of the first lockdown back in March, those who were coupled up and living together may have thought that the extra time together would be a blessing.

My family moved to Las Vegas expecting only to stay for a year or two, at most. Twenty-two years later, we wouldn’t call anywhere else home.

In one amazing 48-hour span last week, Las Vegas celebrated two landmark events that served as a tribute to the ingenuity, boldness and resiliency that put our community on the global map.

Teigen revealed she suffered a miscarriage in September.

Four months ahead of schedule, work began Thursday morning on a sprawling medical facility that, by 2022, will house 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ’s burgeoning medical school. But that work comes in the absence of $25 million in state-appropriated money that was pulled this summer amid faltering state revenues and a $1.2 billion budget shortfall triggered by coronavirus lockdowns.

Development on the new 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Medical School building officially began this morning, months ahead of schedule and still without originally earmarked monies from the state pulled due to budget cuts driven by the coronavirus pandemic.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday for a future medical education building.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought infectious disease terminology into the mainstream. One term is herd immunity—or community protection.

Ten years ago, Maura Bivens became one of the first women in Southern Nevada to be treated with the groundbreaking CyberKnife. The treatment was for triple-negative breast cancer that had metastasized to her lungs. The outlook was grim.