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Start Thanksgiving off with a Turkey Trot

The Six Tunnels to Hoover Dam Las Vegas Turkey Trot offers a half marathon, 12K, 5K and 1-mile distances.

Nevada wants $11.3M for Children’s Health Insurance Program

The state has requested $11.3 million in federal funding to continue the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers more than 27,500 Nevada kids, while Congress decides if it will renew funding for the decades-old program.

T-cell lymphoma treatment a first for Nevada

Though the therapy is three decades old, the rarity of Sezary — about 450 Americans are diagnosed annually, according to the Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation — made it difficult for doctors to convince hospitals that the investment in the machinery would be worthwhile.

Ambulance trips can leave you with surprisingly expensive bills

One patient got a $3,606 bill for a four-mile ride. Another was charged $8,460 for a trip from a hospital that could not handle his case to another that could. Still another found herself marooned at an out-of-network hospital, where she’d been taken by ambulance without her consent.

5 questions about treating pain

We asked Dr. Robert H. Odell Jr., owner and medical director of the Neuropathy and Pain Centers of America in Las Vegas, about treating pain.

In Las Vegas and U.S., undocumented bear brunt of health care gap

As lawmakers debate how to make health insurance affordable and widely available, undocumented immigrants continue to inhabit a netherworld where health care is often available only in emergency rooms and nonprofit clinics.