WASHINGTON – America’s historic health care overhaul, certain now to touch virtually every citizen’s life, narrowly survived an election-year battle at the Supreme Court Thursday with the improbable help of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts.
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The more you learn about Anna Wroble as a mother and as a registered nurse, the more it seems natural that she be the one to change how thousands of expectant and new parents gain information about childbirth and caring for newborns.
Xenex Healthcare Services’ portable UV room disinfection device operates Wednesday during a demonstration at MountainView Hospital.
The Wesley Warren of today does not act like the somber Wesley Warren of last fall. Rather than on the edge of tears, the Las Vegas man suffering from a disease that has left him with a 100-pound scrotum is seemingly enjoying his celebrity.
What would you do if you were a key player in a business responsible for one of the nation’s biggest public-health crises? Leave town? Find a new line of work? Change your name?
Where are the doctors who practiced at Las Vegas endoscopy clinics associated with the outbreak of hepatitis C now? Mostly, they’re still here. Profiles of the 14 doctors:
When Dr. Dale Carrison, chief of staff at University Medical Center, learned another physician had claimed that a 90-day jail stay would place boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s health in jeopardy, Carrison said he felt embarrassment for the medical profession. Carrison said ” sanity prevailed” when a judge denied Mayweather’s request to be placed under house arrest because of “inhumane” conditions at the Clark County Detention Center.
Somehow it always comes as a surprise – a doctor or his loved ones getting sick. Oh, sure, when I think about it rationally, I know physicians and their families are prone to the same illnesses and bad luck as the rest of us mortals.
But I’m not always rational when it comes to my health or that of my family.
When Tom Thomason took the fifth, he was in a Sunrise Hospital operating room, not a courtroom.
Still, there was a question he couldn’t answer as he went under the knife.
Could Dr. Troy Watson pull off a successful ankle replacement surgery on his fifth try?
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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