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Health, wellness efforts earn Lunt, other schools national nod

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation recently honored 251 schools from 25 states for efforts to create a healthier environment for students. Clark County schools receiving recognition were Sewell and Lunt elementary schools and Northwest Career and Technical Academy.

Doctor faces health care challenges in downtown Las Vegas

Zubin Damania and his wife, radiologist Margaret Lin, have heeded the call from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh to drop everything and move to Las Vegas and “help fix health care.”

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Five steroid vials seized from Clark County

Federal officials confiscated from Clark County five vials of the steroid linked to a national meningitis outbreak, a health official said Thursday.

Valley woman fights cancer after machete attack

Maria Del Carmen Gomez, 53, was attacked March 21 outside a convenience store at Craig Road and North Fifth Street. Her former boyfriend, Armando Vergara-Martinez, faces charges of attempted murder and domestic violence.

Sterilization-for-cash activists work mean streets of Las Vegas

Barbara Harris climbs out of her rented SUV and surveys the sun-soaked streets of Naked City. Over here, a worn-out apartment complex with busted-out windows and graffiti-covered walls.

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