For the most part, planes are a great way to go, experts say. But commercial air travel does come with some health baggage.
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Here are a few ways you can encourage kids to read this summer while keeping the focus on fun and discovery.
Aesthetic reasons aside, having strong and stable abdominal muscles is important for several major reasons.
The melanin in darker skin offers extra protection from the sun, but dermatologists say that isn’t enough on its own.
Such disclosures, even if not acted upon, could cause widespread alarm among people seeking emergency medical help for themselves or their children.
When you live in Las Vegas and think about health care, it’s often too easy at the end of the year to find something negative to focus on — a hepatitis outbreak caused by medical professionals not following basic precautions, a TB outbreak caused for the same reason.
The phone call from my teacher wife came in during the afternoon.
The abrupt and mysterious closure of KE Medical Group — an action that left 16,000 patients in a lurch, many who’ve been unable to get prescriptions refilled, treatments completed, appointments made, records transferred — has become even more mysterious.
When you read the opening to the Nov. 8 “Dear Patient” letter that Tracey Brierly and some others received from the KE Medical Group, you realize that it embodies the weirdness surrounding the group’s very public demise.
They are the kind of survey results that provoke a reaction.
This past week, I received a phone call from a man who wanted to know if what he read on the Summerlin Hospital website from its CEO Robert Freymuller was true.
A ventilator kept my father alive. His heart couldn’t do its job.
She watched some segments of “Cops” on TV as a child and wondered how the officers got all their calls.
The more you talk with MountainView Hospital nurses, the more troubled you become.
On this morning I did it again. And I did it even after talking with Kelly Thomas Boyers the day before.
One day after emptying the moving truck, Major Kyle Smith and Lt. Colonel Lisa Smith eagerly stepped into their roles as the Salvation Army’s new Southern Nevada Coordinators, ready to kick off the organization’s annual water drive.
We’re surrounded by warning signs — on the roads, at work, and on packaging and equipment. Your body sends warning signs, too.
IV therapy clinics have been on a growth spurt, offering drips that promise to boost energy, gird immune systems or relieve joint pain.
Plans for Nevada’s first standalone children’s hospital are moving forward, with the next step in the development process.
Mondelēz Global LLC announced a voluntary recall of four carton sizes of Ritz Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches. The affected products were made in the U.S. and sold nationwide.