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Experts weigh in on holiday decorating safety

About 14,900 Americans landed in emergency rooms last year after decorating for the holidays, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported.

 
6 companies, 400 new jobs follow Nevada tax abatements

The board of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development approved spending around $5 million in tax abatements in return for more than $73 million in new tax revenue.

 
Trump to nominate ex-drug executive as health secretary

President Donald Trump on Monday said he will nominate former pharmaceutical executive Alex Azar to serve as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, saying Azar would push to lower the price of medicines.

 
Trump declares opioids a U.S. public health emergency

President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency Thursday in a packed East Room ceremony that highlighted his caring side.

 
Las Vegas shooting victim’s surgeon was former neighbor

After Dr. Timothy Dickhudt, a University Medical Center trauma surgeon, operated on Philip Aurich after the mass shooting in Las Vegas, he discovered that their families had connections in his native Minnesota.

 
Trump to stop subsidies to health insurers

In a brash move likely to roil insurance markets, President Donald Trump will “immediately” halt payments to insurers under the Obama-era health care law he has been trying to unravel for months.

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