Health

RJ reporter Paul Harasim named health writer

Longtime Review-Journal reporter Paul Harasim has been named the newspaper’s health writer.

World’s smallest pacemaker inserted for the first time in a Nevada patient

By PAUL HARASIM / RJ

March 20, 2017 - 4:56 pm

The miniature pacemaker implanted in Pamela Ham without surgery is the latest effort to make heart surgery less traumatic.

Who are you? Your kids probably want to know

BY PAUL HARASIM / RJ

February 20, 2017 - 8:45 am

As columnist Paul Harasim lay in his hospital bed recently, he realized how little he had really told his kids about his life.

Sun City Summerlin trainer Cece Ceccarini finds purpose after mini-stroke

By PAUL HARASIM / RJ

February 20, 2017 - 8:39 am

The native of Switzerland laughs as she remembers how she left Europe at age 22 to travel the world. Though she had a degree in business management, she wasn’t sure what she’d do with it.

At 53, former Las Vegas showgirl takes on a new career

By PAUL HARASIM / RJ

February 20, 2017 - 5:51 am

Jeanne Laubscher went from Bonanza High School in 1982 to the world famous “Les Folies Bergere,” which had a nearly half century run at the Tropicana. She also worked with magician Lance Burton for years.

‘Mrs. MacGyver’ to the rescue

By PAUL HARASIM / RJ

July 20, 2014 - 9:56 pm

Computer exec Glenn Drawdy suffered a stroke during a trip to Las Vegas and is stuck her. But he considers himself to lucky to be betting help from therapist Nicola Gregory, whom he calls “Mrs. MacGyver.”

‘Buyer beware’ extends to health care

By PAUL HARASIM / RJ

April 20, 2014 - 8:33 pm

It isn’t easy to be an astute medical consumer.

Medical moral compass important

By PAUL HARASIM / RJ

October 20, 2013 - 9:59 pm

Most of us are guilty of it to some extent.

Vaccines offer simple answers

By Paul Harasim/ RJ

January 20, 2013 - 6:03 pm

Even with agony, Las Vegas police officer hurt in crash feels empathy

May 20, 2012 - 7:53 pm

Las Vegas police officer Tony McCleery hurts.
You would, too, if a pickup plowed into you as you stood on Las Vegas Boulevard.

Fear of surgery haunts Las Vegas man with 100-pound scrotum

November 20, 2011 - 7:23 pm

Wesley Warren Jr. stands in his living room with more than 100 pounds of scrotum hanging between his legs, but you can’t take your eyes off his haggard face.
The more he talks about what doctors might do wrong in surgical procedures designed to correct the scrotal elephantiasis that became part of his life three years ago, the more unfocused his reddened eyes become.