Author and Nevada Senior Citizen of the Year winner Nancy Nelson works to advance awareness of Alzheimers disease and offer hope to those living with it.
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Bill Trumble, 56 and a semitrailer driver for 40 years, spent as many as 14 hours a day behind the wheel. His downfall: sugar, ice cream and anything else sweet. Between his eating habits and his inactivity, his 6-foot frame was soon packing a whopping 525 pounds.
Each week, a gentle stretch kind of yoga class is offered at H2U Health Center at MountainView Hospital.
The rules governing how Nevada doctors can prescribe addictive opioids such as Lortab, Percocet and OxyContin are set to become more complicated and stringent Jan. 1, fueling concerns among longtime users who say they need the drugs to combat pain.
Jacob Ramirez was healthy as a young child, participating in all the fun stuff kids get to do: karate, T-ball, baseball. He wanted to be an artist one day, a police officer the next.
When you join most gyms, they take down your height and weight. When you join BioMetrix Life Las Vegas, they take your blood.
When Ava Mucikyan opened The Salt Room LV in Trails Village, she had no experience owning or running a business. She only wanted to offer a room where people could relax and breathe in salt-infused air or take a yoga class.
It’s that time of year for singing songs, gathering around the table and opening gifts. But when not everyone feels the tingle of anticipation for old Saint Nick.
Residents, including some ex-smokers, learned about the long-term dangers of tobacco use during a talk by UMC pulmonologist Arthur Romero at Sun City Summerlin.
The word salvage usually refers to cars. At CIDS, it refers to limbs — most often, a leg.
It’s just a number until it hits your family. According to the American Cancer Society, about 252,710 cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed this year in women, and nearly 41,000 will die from it. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month .
When a child is in the hospital, distractions often are a plus. A visit from the fairy art princess is one such distraction.
Dignity Health’s WomensCare Centers has a new initiative: addressing anxiety in new mothers, an ailment not often recognized as an offshoot of postpartum depression. It’s being implemented at places such as the Barbara Greenspun WomensCare Center of Excellence, 98 E. Lake Mead Parkway, Suite 301.
Dignity Health — St. Rose Dominican Hospital’s Siena and Rose de Lima campuses are among the Las Vegas Valley locations where new mothers are now being screened for anxiety. Like postpartum depression, it can affect a new mother’s daily life.
A clinic that’s about to open within the Sumerlin Medical Building is aimed at taking a proactive approach by discovering diseases that might lie in wait for patients.
