Hospitals throughout the valley will continue to temporarily close their emergency rooms to ambulances as officials form a plan to handle the growing number of mentally ill patients who occupy beds meant for those with acute medical conditions.
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The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board picked an interim leader on Thursday and worked on ways to help Xerox, the contractor designing Nevada Health Link’s website.
Hospital emergency rooms throughout the valley are closing their doors to ambulances because the mentally ill are now occupying available beds at a rate higher than in 2004, when the problem prompted then Gov. Kenny Guinn to declare a state of emergency.
Federal health regulators will consider this week whether to green light a provocative new fertilization technique that could eventually create babies from the DNA of three people, with the goal of preventing mothers from passing on debilitating genetic diseases to their children.
Jump stretch bands are starting to appear in gyms.
If Thelma French lived in Michigan instead of Las Vegas, chances are good she’d be facing five years in prison and a $50,000 fine for what she laughingly calls “renting my uterus.”
Milton Knauer, who spent much of his working life developing motors for garbage disposals, knew late last year that his own motor was wearing out fast.
Affording insurance isn’t getting any easier for rural Nevadans.
More change is in the wind for the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange’s troubled Nevada Health Link website. The exchange’s board met Friday, the day after its executive director announced his resignation.
Two Western states with some of the nation’s lowest smoking rates are considering cracking down even more by raising the tobacco age to 21. Utah and Colorado lawmakers both voted favorably on proposals Thursday to treat tobacco like alcohol and take it away from 18- to 20-year-olds, a move inspired by new research on how many smokers start the habit as teenagers.