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Healthy people make healthy communities. What are the biggest barriers to overall health and quality healthcare here in northern Nevada? Learn about innovative approaches happening here in our community and what is being done to ensure all Nevadans can lead healthy, happy lives.

This Purple Politics Nevada episode explores some of the health care gaps rural Nevadans face and what a lawmaker aims to do about it during the 2023 Legislative Session.

Too many Nevadans, including 300,000-plus workers in the hospitality sector, continue to fall through gaps in protections from secondhand smoke.

The pandemic has fundamentally altered health care labor markets as workers reassess local employment options, if not future careers in health care.

I READ The Argus story about the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioners astronomical salary for 2021 and the overall cost of running her office,…

Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and John Boozman (R-AR) introduced the bipartisan Physicians for Underserved Areas Act to

Nevadas annual county health rankings are in. They measure health outcomes which include length and quality of life. Those are driven by health factors like behavior, clinical care, social, economic

The University of California-Davis has spent close to $50 million preventing the spread of covid on campus — and among residents and workers in the adjacent city of Davis.

Once a week, Lori Janich drives down the street from her office and partakes in an ongoing success story. Phone in hand to confirm her appointment, she strolls into the massive Activities and Recreation Center on the University of California-Davis campus, reaches a covid-19 testing station, swirls water in her mouth, spits into a tube, and leaves. Within a day, she receives her test result.

Through a joint city-university effort, a program set up at UC Davis has administered more than 740,000 free tests.