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North Las Vegas church preaches health to congregation

First African Methodist Episcopal Church has the usual roster of offerings — men’s, women’s, senior and youth ministries, choir, a food pantry program — you’d find at any sizable church. But the church, at 2446 Revere St. in North Las Vegas, operates something most other churches wouldn’t even think to have: A health ministry.

Just a kid, but already fighting cancer

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.

For stronger posterior, try answering the (kettle) bell

Do you hate doing cardio? Try combining your cardio and weight training by using kettle bells.
Kettle bells are like cannon balls with handles attached. I like them because they work the body’s posterior chain very well — mainly the hamstrings, glutes and back.

Health Calendar

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Drug maker to pay $285 million to settle hepatitis lawsuits

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.

Want to halt the spread of germs? Clean your hands

Here’s a message that doesn’t resonate with many adults: Washing your hands is important. In addition to not washing their hands at all, experts say, many people don’t wash them properly.

Doctors’ scrawling prompts fed action

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.

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