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Ruvo program treats MS patients

The first sign that something was wrong, Candace Infante realizes now, came about six years ago when she was out with friends and her left side started “feeling tingly all over.”

Good and bad in health care in 2013

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.

Time to spell it out ASAP

When he was left alone in an office with his medical record open on the doctor’s desk, a longtime friend of mine admitted curiosity got the best of him and he went over to see his file.

Zip in his step, zest for life in his heart

If the smile on Don Laughlin’s face became any broader you suspect he’d have to make an emergency landing at a nearby hospital to receive treatment for a dislocated temporomandibular joint.

Quackery or cure? It’s sometimes hard to tell

When Las Vegan Rick Tope showed me a bottle of Canker Cure – pills he advertises as preventing and healing painful canker sores in the mouth – I noted some ingredients had been crossed out with a black pen.
“I have better ingredients now,” he said. “I don’t want to tell you for proprietary reasons … there’s amino acids, too.”

We need a clearer picture of Lasik

Every time I hear sports talk show host Paul Howard selling LASIK eye surgery – it only took him a few painless minutes to acquire 20-15 vision – I think of a woman I wrote about in Texas who lost her sight from a laser procedure. Her emotional appeal to me to let people know that such surgery is not without risk has stayed with me.

Arduous road back from brain surgery

So different, yet so much the same. Sally Towey, an 81-year-old Las Vegan, was talking about the ordeals of Gabrielle Dee “Gabby” Giffords and her late daughter, Kim Sullivan.