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UNLV to begin camp for children whose parents have cancer

Jaclyn Rivera remembers her mother being treated for breast cancer when Jaclyn was just 15. She also remembers how dramatically her mother’s course of treatment altered not just the family’s life, but her own perspective.

Construction to close Dantes View in Death Valley

The National Park Service plans to shut off access to Dantes View for two months beginning Monday for construction of new viewing platforms, improved parking and other upgrades.

Nevada mental health home providers put on notice after audit

Nevada health officials announced Monday that “several providers” have been put on corrective action plans a week after an audit revealed mentally ill people are living in taxpayer-funded homes filled with feces and filth.

FDA anti-smoking proposal might let tobacco companies flourish

Imagine if cigarettes were no longer addictive and smoking itself became almost obsolete; only a tiny segment of Americans still lit up. That’s the goal of an unprecedented anti-smoking plan being carefully fashioned by U.S. health officials.

GOP dangles CHIP reauthorization in new bid to avoid shutdown

The new carrot to entice Democrats to vote for a temporary spending bill to keep the federal government operating came as prospects for a deal to protect undocumented immigrants who were brought here illegally as children.

Scientists working on creation of super flu shot

A century after one of history’s most catastrophic disease outbreaks, scientists are rethinking how to guard against another super-flu like the 1918 influenza that killed tens of millions as it swept the globe.

 
Stifling an explosive sneeze can be dangerous to your health

Tempted to stifle a loud or untimely sneeze? Let it out instead, doctors in England warned Monday based on the very unusual case of a man who ruptured the back of his throat when he tried to suppress a sneeze.

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