Luzviminda Banaria, a nurse at University Medical Center, was named Distinguished Nurse of the Year by the March of Dimes, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Eva Stowers: January 2008 Archives
A colleague pointed out to me the wealth of surgical videos on You Tube and I found this interesting collection from ORLivedotcom It lists 403 videos.
The January 7, 2008 issue of AMNew contains an article titled "Click to play: YouTube and similar sites have more doctors getting ready for their close-ups." It describes how Dr. Loring Jacobs, an internist in Las Vegas, sends a video e-mail so that he can provide routine test results in a more personal way, as well as provide details about the results.
There will be a Joint Chapter Meeting of the Northern California/Nevada Medical Library Group and the Medical Library Group of Southern California & Arizona in Las Vegas February 6-9, 2008. One of the plenary session speakers is Dr. Mary Guinan, from UNLV's School of Public Health. Her topic will be "Public Health Experiences in Nevada: From Cancer Clusters to Hanta Virus."
