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Is anyone watching the pharmacy industry?

The more you follow the outbreak of meningitis, which is linked to tainted spinal injections developed by a compounding pharmacy out of Massachusetts, the more disgusted you become.
And the more you look into whether compounding pharmacies are well-regulated in Nevada, the more worried you become.

Minor pests, major dangers – even in Las Vegas

They each weigh about 2.5 milligrams and fly about 1.5 mph. You might think of them more as annoying pests than anything else.
They are, however, far more than annoying – they’re the most dangerous creatures on Earth.
Mosquitoes.

Las Vegas doctor fuels patients’ courage to fight cancer

So often Dr. Heather Allen sees it – a patient arrives, most often a woman, with anxiety buzzing inside her head like a power drill.
Fear is a natural response to a threat, the physician knows, and the threat her patient has received – a diagnosis of breast cancer – can leave her patient too shell shocked to focus on survival, particularly if she does not believe a legitimate counterattack is at hand.

Honoring the living, as long as he can

It should have been a wonderful time for Dr. Dale Carrison.
But as he received an award for contributions to the community, he knew that the business of medicine too often had gotten in the way of keeping in close touch with friends and family.