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She must have taken a tumble, just like all little ones do.
That’s what Jerad Ewing thought when his 3-year-old daughter, Ava, complained of soreness in her hip area.
That soreness she first experienced in 2010 turned out to be Stage IV neuroblastoma, a rare and often deadly form of childhood cancer.
International drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals will pay more than a quarter billion dollars to settle most of the lawsuits arising from Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak, closing a major chapter in the long legal battle for patients infected with the life-changing disease.
Do you have a guess what is behind the government’s push for electronic medical records? Easier access fpr doctors and patients? Better care? Nice guesses. It is lousy handwriting, according to many doctors, that is actually behind the push.
After six months of studying Dr. Dipak Desai as he lived in a nuthouse in Sparks, three of the state’s best shrinks recently concluded, in effect, that he knows the difference between an outhouse and a courthouse, that he remains competent enough to tell his lawyer, Richard Wright, to keep stalling so he doesn’t go to trial.
Legislators approved funds Thursday to launch a public relations campaign by the state Health Division to warn Hispanic people of the dangers of using unlicensed medical personnel.
WASHINGTON — After the Catholic Church in Nevada spoke out over the weekend, an Obama administration decision to require church-affiliated groups to offer birth control coverage became a sudden political issue that has split the state’s delegation in Congress.
Like most people, Dr. Joseph Thornton, an associate professor at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, laughs at jokes about hemorrhoids, even appreciating the down-home wisdom some one-liners provide: “Hemorrhoid patients never play musical chairs.” But he also is the first to say that humor revolving around hemorrhoids is funnier if you don’t have the ailment.
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Early voting begins Saturday for the June 11 primary. Here’s what you need to know.
Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
Experts said there are significant safety hazards that in-flight turbulence poses to airline passengers and crews. Injuries have piled up over the years.
A coalition of residents and activists called on the Biden administration to issue heat protections for outdoor workers and declare climate change a national emergency.
