It’s only been a year since Joseph Ferreira migrated from south Florida to take the reins of the Nevada Donor Network and recent figures produced by the nonprofit procurement organization already reflect his success.
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It’s a topic that’s become a part of the national conversation, almost as much as unemployment and same-sex marriage.
In the fall of 2009, at the height of the recession, the therapists at a counseling center on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus were seeing the deteriorating economy take its toll. Worries related to financial stresses were so pervasive among their clients that the staff launched a pilot study to pinpoint exactly what was going on and how to help.
Kurt Duchac has been growing his own medical marijuana for about three years. He turns to his small garden of plants daily to heal the chronic pain in his back brought on by working decades as an auto mechanic.
BALTIMORE — In the 15 years between a shotgun blast that ravaged the bottom half of Richard Norris’ face and the face transplant that ended a hermit-like life for him, the man from rural southwest Virginia faced cruelty from strangers, fought addiction and contemplated suicide.
Hobby Lobby and a sister company will not be subject to $1.3 million in daily fines beginning Monday for failing to provide access to certain forms of birth control through its employees’ health care plans, a judge ruled Friday.
By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she’d been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery.
Four of 10 patients who were improperly discharged from Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital were returned to their state of residence, according to a newly completed analysis of nearly 1,500 cases of patient transports spanning five years.
As the National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning for this weekend while forecasting a Sunday temperature –– 117 degrees –– that would tie the highest reading ever recorded in Southern Nevada, University Medical Center trauma and burn specialist Dr. Jay Coates issued his own warning: If you don’t want second-degree burns, don’t run across an asphalt parking lot or street barefoot.
MountainView Hospital will continue its emphasis on Medicare patients with the imminent completion of its $70 million new wing.