Sion Lee, a 32-year-old graphic and Web designer in Las Vegas, has replaced his regular desk with a TrekDesk treadmill desk. Instead of sitting, he spends his days walking at about 2 mph, a pace that lets him talk on the phone without breathing hard and use his computer without falling off.
State Sen. Joe Hardy decided Tuesday that performance art could best describe how the new national health care law would change the system.
Even as activity at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada continued to shrink, the operating loss widened.
Las Vegas’ specialty hospitals continue to outperform their bigger and better-known acute-care brethren by a wide margin.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention informed the Southern Nevada Health District last year that two cases of Legionnaires’ disease had been possibly linked to the Aria. But it wasn’t until last month that local officials tested the water at the posh Strip resort and discovered the type of bacteria that causes the disease.
