A Southwest Airline jet heading to Las Vegas from Southern California took a dramatic plunge shortly after takeoff in response to an alert about a nearby plane.
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These wearable wonders and breezy gadgets can offer some relief when the sidewalk feels like a stovetop
A lack of clarity about this part of the body often leads to confusion about effective core training strategies.
We asked registered dietitians to explain how to strike the right balance of getting enough protein while trying to lose weight.
Wrist injuries from swing sports like golf, pickleball, tennis and baseball — tend to be from overuse and repeated motion.
There are times when University Medical Center nurse Robin Parks wants to leave her patient’s room and howl in frustration.
“Some families just can’t handle the stigma of someone close to them having HIV, but pneumonia’s OK,” Parks says.
So now it’s come to this: We have to teach preschoolers that it’s good — and fun — to run and jump.
And, oh yes, we also must teach them to ask their parents if they can go out and play.
We were in the fifth grade when my friend David started feeling tired all the time. Instead of wanting to play ball, he wanted to sleep. He complained that his arms and legs hurt. David was dying of leukemia, a form of cancer.
When she gave her husband a huge bear hug and told him how much she loved him, a breath escaped from his lips. “Are you sure he’s still not with us?” Jean Georges recalls asking a nearby medical attendant through her tears. A little more than a half hour earlier, Leonard Georges, had died from Alzheimer’s disease.
“It can be tough when you rely on a bike for transportation,” says Las Vegas tailor Michael Starks. “I ended up on the hood of a car when somebody turned on me,” he said. ” I got hurt pretty bad, just skinned and bruised, but it took me about a week to feel better.”
Even so, Starks says, he might never drive a car again.
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.
She’s seen a lot in her 30 years as a registered nurse in hospitals in Las Vegas and elsewhere across the country.
Yet some of what she’s seen should make us all concerned.
He could be attending medical conferences in Austria or London or Paris and he would always get back to them by email within a couple of hours.
No matter where Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang was, Roxane Quinn said, he never was too busy to call in prescriptions or to answer questions about the condition of her ailing husband.
It was about four months ago when the old man was found barely breathing on a sidewalk near downtown.
When he was brought to University Medical Center, he had second-degree burns over much of his body — and administrators say keeping him alive has already cost about $3 million.
When the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners undertook an investigation of his practice, Dr. Ralph Conti knew how to act in his best interest.
He thumbed his nose at the agency, not once but twice –in both 2008 and 2010.
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With approximately 300,000 vehicles traversing U.S. 95 every day, lane closures for infrastructure repairs can wreak havoc on commute times.
An airport south of Las Vegas has been in the planning stages since 2006 and wouldn’t open until 2037, but the public gets a chance to weigh in on it next week.
Do not accept “free” offers in exchange for your Medicare number. They will use your account to pay for whatever they are offering.
As temperatures inched near triple digits Wednesday afternoon, people along a central Las Vegas corridor and services hub for locals experiencing homelessness found ways to cool down.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford argued the new rule, set to take effect next month, would “threaten coverage for more than 100,000 Nevadans.”
