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For patients facing serious illnesses, access to cutting-edge, innovative treatments can make all the difference. Historically, many Nevadans have looked outside the state to participate in clinical trials or benefit from the latest medical discoveries. Today, access is coming closer to home. 

Over a year ago, Times of Malta wrote, in the context of obesity, that: “Too often, the public health sector is firefighting instead of planning with foresight”. Crisis management means that we lurch from one solution to another, creating entities, forging partnerships with the private sector, endless initiatives – but the approach is piecemeal and…

Periods of disruption have often forced societies to rethink old assumptions, create new institutions, and find novel ways to solve problems. I have been thinking about that idea over the past year after seeing a record number of measles cases in the U.S.; disease outbreaks not seen in our country in decades, such as New…