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Las Vegas cancer center drops Obamacare patients

A billing dispute has cost enrollees in the state’s health insurance exchange access to Southern Nevada’s largest oncology practice.

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Exec optimistic about state health exchange fix

Bruce Gilbert, the new executive director of the Silver State Health Exchange, says he’s undaunted by the big job of fixing the troubled Obamacare agency

 
Las Vegas mothers protest right to breastfeed in public

Dozens of mothers gathered for a protest Wednesday, exercising their right to breastfeed in public as part of a “nurse in” staged at the Centennial Hills YMCA.

Nevada among 9 states linked to chicken salmonella outbreaks

The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture said Thursday night it has found evidence directly linking Foster Farms boneless-skinless chicken breast to a case of Salmonella Heidelberg.

 
Woman in class-action lawsuit against Xerox dies

Linda Rolain, a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against Xerox, died Monday, less than two weeks after her family went public with details about Nevada Health Link enrollment troubles that kept her from treatment in January for an aggressive brain tumor.