In 2012, there were more than 115,000 people in the U.S. awaiting an organ transplant – enough to overflow the country’s largest football stadium. Each year, more than 28,000 Americans receive a donated organ, but sadly, more than 6,500 people die each year waiting for an organ. It is, however, a problem with a solution – one that depends a lot on education and selflessness. Are you registered as an organ donor? Here is what you need to know.
As new medical breakthroughs emerge, the role of antibiotics has also evolved and helped patients dealing with anything from ear infections to serious lung infections like pneumonia. However, antibiotics are not foolproof. Bacteria, when exposed to antibiotic drugs, can learn how to resist them. These resistant bacteria are known as superbugs, which are harder for antibiotics to kill. Here’s what you need to know.
Patio season has arrived, and opportunities for outdoor social gatherings will abound in the coming months. Birthdays, graduations, showers, holidays and any other reasons to enjoy warm weather will call for unique outdoor party solutions that differ from indoor events. Here are a few ideas to make al fresco entertaining a snap.
For years, women have been working at the ends of hair, rather than the foundation – the scalp. Now, it is time to start working at the right end of hair. Follow these top rules from the experts to get strong, beautiful hair.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: River Cats, Bruce Billings (2-1); 51s, Chris Schwinden (2-3)
On April 19, arbitrator Leonard Gang, a Las Vegas attorney, reaffirmed his decision in favor of Southern Nevada homeowners associations, ruling that a superpriority lien is not capped at six or nine times the monthly assessment, but also can include the cost of collecting the debt.
Editor’s note: Listings include the resale home’s parcel number. Occasionally, the address listed is the homebuyer’s mailing address and not the actual location of the home. Check the parcel number to make sure. Also, a few transactions do not reflect the market value of the homes.
Country music performers are the stars of the free Country in the Park event, but it is the Exploration Park at the Mountain’s Edge master-planned community that creates the stage. The concert will be held in the southwestern valley community’s amphitheater.
A new phase release is scheduled for today at Pardee Homes’ newly opened Eldorado Heights and LivingSmart Homes Eldorado Ridge, both located in the builder’s Eldorado master-planned community in North Las Vegas.
I like to be the bearer of good news. This week, I have two examples.
Shea Homes at Ardiente, an age-qualified community in North Las Vegas, offers the Verona. The 1,223-square-foot home has two bedrooms, two baths and a two-car garage starting at $170,990.
The UNLV men’s golf team shot a 3-over-par 287 in the first round of the Mountain West championship Friday and trails leader New Mexico by five strokes in the 54-hole event at the Catalina Course at OMNI Tucson National Resort in Arizona.
Q: Twelve years ago, my dad, then 80, bought a Florida condominium for himself and his live-in girlfriend. He paid $30,000. His girlfriend contributed nothing. He has paid all the maintenance fees. The deed states that in the event of the death of one of them the other inherits the condo. She is 18 years younger than he.
Summerlin’s newest village, in the southwestern corner of the 22,500-acre master-planned community is bursting with activity.
Sometimes setting records is not enough. Bishop Gorman’s Randall Cunningham II broke the oldest Zone/Region track and field record on the books Friday at the Sunset Region meet at Silverado and still wasn’t satisifed.
Anthony Dirrell didn’t expect to be perfect after being out of action for 17 months. But the super middleweight from Flint, Mich., was good enough Friday to stay undefeated.
Mark Yoseloff spent a career designing, developing and manufacturing electronic games.
In those times over the past few years when media from all dots on a global map heard from Robert Guerrero’s people, I would think of the Inyo National Forest, which covers parts of California and Nevada and stretches some 2 million acres.
Davi Millsaps will race in tonight’s Supercross season finale and then take time off to undergo surgery and rehabilitate his nearly “destroyed” knee.
Riders know what they’re getting into when they enter the sport, and stories like Millsaps’ aren’t unusual.
ELKO — Wildlife officials and conservationists in Nevada say they’re making progress knocking down the white plastic pipes that miners have used to stake their claims, as such markers can become death traps for hundreds of thousands of small birds that get stuck inside.
Allegations of patient dumping at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital gained the attention of federal and independent agencies that sent investigators to the Las Vegas facility Thursday and Friday.
Wynn Las Vegas race and sports book director John Avello handicaps the 20-horse Derby field: “This is the Super Bowl for horse racing. I think there are six or seven real legitimate horses in here…
