The Regional Transportation Center’s Mobility Training Center includes a 1,200-square-foot apartment-like space for an intensive 90-hour training program. As many as six students at a time meet for 7½ hours a day, five days a week for three weeks to learn basic life skills.
Jason and Sandra Kuzik are racing to do all they can to cure blindness. As co-chairs for VisionWalk Las Vegas, a Nov. 6 walk to benefit the Foundation Fighting Blindness, they’re signing up volunteers and teams of participants, soliciting raffle prizes and spreading the word to support a cause that, for them, hits close to home.
Actress Pia Zadora wants families in the valley dealing with autism to know that “it’s going to get better.” Her now 19-year-old son was diagnosed with autism 15 years ago, and she was on hand Oct. 13 to celebrate the opening of the UNLV Medicine Ackerman Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment Solutions.
Most of Nevada’s hospitals are struggling to make the grade when it comes to patient safety, according to a new report by a national health-care watchdog that placed the state near the bottom of its rankings.
Sticky or hard candy can cause problems with braces that should not be ignored.
Once simply plain and practical garments for those with high blood pressure or varicose veins, compression stockings are being offered in stylish colors and designs to attract a younger market.
Nevada’s debate over whether dentists and dental hygienists should be able to administer Botox for cosmetic and dental reasons boiled over recently at a meeting of the State Board of Dental Examiners.
Acute care facility built at a cost of $168 million anchors the what is eventually expected to become a $1.2 billion health and wellness complex known as Union Village.
When patients are going through cancer treatment, oncology nurses are some of their main sources of medical contact and comfort. Although nursing can be personally fulfilling, it’s definitely not an easy job. So what makes someone choose it as a professional path?
As the director of production for On Stage Enterprises, which owns all of the “Legends in Concert” shows nationally, including the residency show at the Flamingo Las Vegas, Toni Lee has spent her career prepared to make quick adjustments based on performance mishaps and unpredictable situations. But when a diagnosis of breast cancer was shared with her on — of all days — Sept. 11, 2007, 48-year-old Lee couldn’t find a way to justify the disease choosing her body.
For many people, it’s hard to know what to say or do when someone they love is ill. And for the patient, asking for help can be difficult.
A study of mice infected with Zika showed the virus caused lasting damage to key cells in the male reproductive system, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Lucas Gutierrez was told he wouldn’t make it past 18. At 450 pounds, doctors labeled then 15-year-old Gutierrez as “severely morbidly obese.”
It may not feel like it, but Nevadans who get their health insurance courtesy of the Affordable Care Act can consider themselves relatively lucky as 2017 comes into focus.
The story of how “Patient Zero” and AIDS arrived in New York in 1979 and triggered the epidemic in North America has been told so many times in so many different ways that for many people it’s become an accepted truth of our modern history. It’s a compelling narrative, but it’s not quite right.
