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Health bill dead for now after being opposed by 2 more GOP senators

The latest GOP effort to repeal and replace “Obamacare” was fatally wounded in the Senate Monday night when two more Republican senators announced their opposition to the legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump.

 
Dog-walking app Wag now available in Las Vegas

Wag, a smartphone app that has been described as a sort of Uber for dogs, fetches walkers for dogs rather than rides for people.

Zion National Park considers reservation system for entry

Besieged by tourists, the Utah park 160 miles northeast of Las Vegas is considering implementing a system that would require visitors to obtain reservations to get in.

$1.2M from Nevada AG creates OB/GYN program at UNR

A $1.2 million allocation from the attorney general’s office to the University of Nevada, Reno Medical School should soon begin producing more baby doctors for the state.

Study suggests speech could be early sign of mental decline

Your speech may, um, help reveal if you’re uh … developing thinking problems. More pauses, filler words and other verbal changes might be an early sign of mental decline, which can lead to Alzheimer’s disease, a study suggests.

Doctors find 27 contact lenses lodged in woman’s eye

A brief write-up in the British Medical Journal claims that doctors found 27 contact lenses in a 67-year-old patient’s eye when she was being prepped for surgery at England’s Solihull Hospital.

 
Number of middle, high school students smoking on the decline

According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the estimated number of middle and high school students who are tobacco users dropped from 4.7 million in 2015 to 3.9 million in 2016.