Imagine being a pitcher on a major league baseball team and incurring a high-grade tear ulnar collateral ligament. This tear occurs with overuse on the ligaments in the elbow and is a common injury of baseball pitchers who perform frequent overarm movements. This is what happened to Los Angeles Angels pitcher Garrett Richards in 2016. […]
You may be eager to get outside this summer, but protecting yourself from the summer sun is important. Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation is the primary cause of cell damage that may lead to skin cancer, including melanoma, its most aggressive form. Most of the UV light that reaches the Earth is UVA, the long-wave ultraviolet rays that penetrate […]
Longevity medicine, also known as regenerative medicine, is advanced preventive medicine and is a fast-emerging field. Dynamic Stem Cell Therapy encompasses the rapidly evolving areas of preventive and functional medicine. Stem cells are the future of longevity/regenerative medicine and for a good reason. They are individual cells that have the potential to develop into many […]
Your fears are normal. Fear of dentists is very common. Let’s face it. Going to the dentist is not fun; dentists poke and prod a sensitive area of your body. Often an upsetting childhood dental experience has lasting effects into adulthood. Sometimes people “inherit” fears from parents, whose experiences with dentists may have been traumatic. […]
No matter your age, physical activity or stage in life, an injury or medical condition will profoundly affect your way of life. There can be plenty of fear and worry that goes along with these sorts of thing, still you want to feel good. Dynamic Stem Cell Therapy is a Nevada Regenerative Medicine clinic that […]
Clive Vanderwagen’s Leadership Lessons On The Power Of Empathy Will Leave You Speechless Relationships in any organization matter. They are the core of your business, says team dynamics training consultant, speaker, and award-winning writer, Clive Vanderwagen. So understanding how we can build better relationships will ultimately lead to better results. Empathy is a big, complicated […]
Statistics rarely tell the whole story on any topic—case in point: colorectal cancer. The numbers tell us that the disease is the fourth-most common cancer diagnosed in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer deaths. They also tell us that the rates of new cases and deaths from colorectal cancer have fallen dramatically […]
Appearance The first things that people notice are your eyes and your smile. Withholding a smile can make a negative impression, and less-than-perfect teeth may also be unfairly judged. You can change both with dental implants. No other tooth replacement option looks more like natural teeth. If you’ve been without teeth for a while, you have probably […]
Dental implants can have a huge impact – for Glenn and Debbie, they were a dream come true. Glenn was like so many people suffering through nagging discomfort and continual issues with their teeth. After years of suffering and no clear path to relief, Glenn finally met someone else with the same issues and found […]
It may seem hard to believe, but in the early- and mid-1900s, many Americans believed smoking cigarettes was just as safe as chewing gum. After all, during WWII, tobacco companies sent millions of free cigarettes to American service personnel, and tobacco companies used doctors to market their products. One company boasted that “more doctors smoke” its […]
A recent increase in dental implant marketing has prompted many to ask how one chooses the right dentist to place single-tooth implants or implant secured dentures. Experience—is certainly one of the most important factors in choosing a dentist. In the long run, experience means the professional can draw from his or her knowledge to assess […]
On Sunday, Pamela Copeland will do something that’s become quite routine every year, but is also still very near and dear to her heart. She and thousands of other Nevadans will participate in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk at the Red Rock Resort, 11011 W. Charleston Blvd. Copeland, a retiree […]
Global statistics show that a woman’s lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is 1 in 8. Of all the cancers, breast cancer carries the highest mortality rate for women between ages 20 and 59. This is why it’s so important for women, beginning at age 40, to have annual mammograms. If a family history of […]
Every two minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. It is one of the most common cancers in women. Men are not immune, as one in a 1,000 is diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime. Survival directly corresponds to early detection so access to diagnostic testing and treatment is […]
By the age of 35, Anjali Chase was well aware of her risk for developing breast cancer after watching both her mother and aunt receive their own diagnoses, but when she asked her OB-GYN about beginning early mammograms, the response was not what she expected. Despite her family history and guidelines for high-risk patients, the […]
Over a six-month span of 2013 and 2014, Ira Kaganovsky Green had three female friends — ages 31, 41 and 43 — diagnosed with breast cancer. “These were healthy women and not even middle-aged,” Green said. “I wanted to know what was going on — was there something in our water? What was happening that […]
Shea Theodore will take the ice for the Golden Knights this season, but the NHL defenseman is also gearing up again for a special power play off the hockey rink that means a lot to him and his family. With the arrival of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Theodore and Comprehensive Cancer Centers teamed again for […]
In her early 40s, Shannon Steele had experienced fairly typical mammograms for three years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Because of extremely dense breast tissue, her doctor planned Steele’s mammograms more often to get a baseline reading. Since she scheduled these assessments a year in advance, she had one on the calendar for the end […]
There’s no excuse not to get a mammogram, especially since the Mammovan offers mobile mammography throughout Nevada. Operated by Nevada Health Centers (a nonprofit, federally qualified community health center dedicated to providing access to quality health care throughout Nevada since 1977), the bright pink Mammovan provides mammograms to women in geographically isolated areas, as well […]
