Here’s a message that doesn’t resonate with many adults: Washing your hands is important. In addition to not washing their hands at all, experts say, many people don’t wash them properly.
Do you have a guess what is behind the government’s push for electronic medical records? Easier access fpr doctors and patients? Better care? Nice guesses. It is lousy handwriting, according to many doctors, that is actually behind the push.
Revisiting basic exercises with a critical eye can help identify faults in your form. Last week we looked at the push-up. This week, we discuss pull-ups and chin-ups, which work a majority of the muscles in the back.
A doctor at the Women’s Cancer Center of Nevada — and one who is on the way there — have collaborated on a research paper that was published in the January issue of BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
John Fairfax, the first known person to row alone across the Atlantic Ocean, has died at his Henderson home. He was 74. The self-described “professional adventurer” died Feb. 8 of an apparent heart attack in Henderson, his wife, Tiffany, said Sunday.
ESPN fired an employee responsible for an offensive headline about Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin. The headline Friday on ESPN’s mobile website was used for a story about a New York loss in which Lin had nine turnovers. The headline was an idiom that contains a word that also can be used as a slur against Chinese.
A representative for Stephen Colbert says “The Colbert Report” will return Monday after a sudden break due to the ailing health of the star’s mother. Colbert is expected to address his absence on Monday. His 91-year-old mother, Lorna Colbert, is ill.
Whitney Houston was laid to rest Sunday at a brief private ceremony in New Jersey, the end of a weekend that saw the pop star’s family and friends gather at a star-studded funeral to mourn her loss while celebrating her career.
Former heavyweight Mike Tyson said he owes it all to Muhammad Ali. Tyson, while arriving near the end of the Ali birthday tribute Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, was cornered when he walked past a table of boxing writers.
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Wynn Resorts Ltd. said Sunday it has deemed Kazuo Okada, a former close business associate of Steve Wynn, as “unsuitable” based on an internal investigation and has forcibly bought his shares in the company at a steep discount.
