Eating healthy snacks during the workday can be challenging. Many people find themselves facing down sugar, caffeine or carb cravings.
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Up to 900,000 Americans each year develop a blood clot, which is a risk factor for heart attack and stroke, according to the CDC.
Hope Means Nevada, a nonprofit led by teens, has become one of the leading voices across the state for our young people.
The word has become so weighty that finding a purpose has, for many, turned into a source of angst.
The county has not confirmed any cases of the infectious disease since 2018, but it is urging parents to stay up to date on their children’s vaccines.
There are times when University Medical Center nurse Robin Parks wants to leave her patient’s room and howl in frustration.
“Some families just can’t handle the stigma of someone close to them having HIV, but pneumonia’s OK,” Parks says.
So now it’s come to this: We have to teach preschoolers that it’s good — and fun — to run and jump.
And, oh yes, we also must teach them to ask their parents if they can go out and play.
We were in the fifth grade when my friend David started feeling tired all the time. Instead of wanting to play ball, he wanted to sleep. He complained that his arms and legs hurt. David was dying of leukemia, a form of cancer.
When she gave her husband a huge bear hug and told him how much she loved him, a breath escaped from his lips. “Are you sure he’s still not with us?” Jean Georges recalls asking a nearby medical attendant through her tears. A little more than a half hour earlier, Leonard Georges, had died from Alzheimer’s disease.
“It can be tough when you rely on a bike for transportation,” says Las Vegas tailor Michael Starks. “I ended up on the hood of a car when somebody turned on me,” he said. ” I got hurt pretty bad, just skinned and bruised, but it took me about a week to feel better.”
Even so, Starks says, he might never drive a car again.
Wesley Warren Jr. stands in his living room with more than 100 pounds of scrotum hanging between his legs, but you can’t take your eyes off his haggard face.
The more he talks about what doctors might do wrong in surgical procedures designed to correct the scrotal elephantiasis that became part of his life three years ago, the more unfocused his reddened eyes become.
She’s seen a lot in her 30 years as a registered nurse in hospitals in Las Vegas and elsewhere across the country.
Yet some of what she’s seen should make us all concerned.
He could be attending medical conferences in Austria or London or Paris and he would always get back to them by email within a couple of hours.
No matter where Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang was, Roxane Quinn said, he never was too busy to call in prescriptions or to answer questions about the condition of her ailing husband.
It was about four months ago when the old man was found barely breathing on a sidewalk near downtown.
When he was brought to University Medical Center, he had second-degree burns over much of his body — and administrators say keeping him alive has already cost about $3 million.
When the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners undertook an investigation of his practice, Dr. Ralph Conti knew how to act in his best interest.
He thumbed his nose at the agency, not once but twice –in both 2008 and 2010.
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With another scorching Southern Nevada summer now in full swing, there’s no time like the present to learn how to help your landscape survive these hot months—and what steps you can take to save water this season.
The county has not confirmed any cases of the infectious disease since 2018, but it is urging parents to stay up to date on their children’s vaccines.
The Henderson City Council on Tuesday approved receiving more than $550,000 to settle litigation with one of the largest entities tied to the nationwide opioid epidemic.
A smoke alert has been issued for the Las Vegas Valley as a result of California wildfires, the Clark County Division of Air Quality announced.
Risk factors for dying in the heat include drug use, old age and homelessness, according to experts.
