Whether planning on celebrating at a house party with friends and family, or out-on-the-town at a city-sponsored event, we need to exercise caution as glasses raise to a new year. Drivers, passengers, pedestrians and revelers alike need to make wise decisions about alcohol to insure everyone gets to and from their destinations safely.
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A Clark County child died from the flu, being the first pediatric flu-related death in Clark County for the 2015-16 season, the Southern Nevada Health District said Wednesday.
A judge gave a Reno hospital permission Tuesday to conduct more tests to detect brain activity on a young Las Vegas woman who has been kept on life support after being declared brain dead in May.
Two Clark County men have died from the flu so far this season, the Southern Nevada Health District announced Thursday — a reminder to wash hands, cover coughs and “get your flu shot,” district spokeswoman Stephanie Bethel said.
Nevada will have to eliminate the wait list of those stuck at the Clark County Detention Center waiting for mental health treatment by March 1, 2016, and those waiting in jails across the state by April 1, 2016, according to an amended federal settlement approved Tuesday by a federal judge.
Two months after a worker was found dead inside one of its cryochambers, a Henderson cryotherapy spa appears to be closed for good.
Three Southern Nevada physicians were taken off regulatory probation Friday, including a Las Vegas orthopedic surgeon accused of throwing drug-fueled sex parties at his Henderson home and at the Trump Hotel.
Bashar Abualhajii sits in a locked control room equipped with monitors, watching every move in the facility.
A Las Vegas man looked for love and found it briefly, meeting a minor Hollywood producer online. But a series of trysts packed an ugly twist — an incurable sexually transmitted disease.
Darris Parlor claims he can sing and talk in different voices.
The battle over maintaining life support for a 20-year-old Las Vegas woman continues this week in Reno. It focuses on the question of when is a person considered dead.
For the fifth consecutive year, Southern Hills Medical Center in Las Vegas has made the list of top performing hospitals compiled by the independent agency that accredits the most U.S. health care organizations.
In an old ad campaign, Gatorade asked athletes, “Is it in you?”
More than 100 women who thought they were protected from pregnancy by their birth control pills have filed a lawsuit against a manufacturer because the pills were packaged incorrectly.
Guys, listen up: There’s another reason to limit your intake of sugary or artificially sweetened sodas: It might contribute to heart failure. Researchers followed the food habits of 42,000 Swedish men over 12 years and found that men who drank at least two sweetened beverages a day had a 23 percent higher risk of going into heart failure.