With the new school year just around the corner, parents often are faced with a daunting list of things to do to help their children get ready to go back to the classroom.
Health
For a good portion of her life, Alexis Gibson knew the stigma of having HIV can take just as big of a toll as having the virus. A lifetime of taunts and discrimination taught her that it probably would be easier hiding the truth about her health.
Selfies have proven to be a boon for more than social media, family sharing and dating apps. Cosmetic medicine is being buoyed by the selfie effect as people seek to change their appearance after feeling uncomfortable seeing photographs posted on social media.
A man in China may regain use of his hand after it was cut off in an industrial accident. Even more amazing is how the doctors saved the man’s hand: They grafted it onto his leg.
Walmart and Evenflo announced this week a new infant car seat with technology designed to remind drivers of their backseat passengers, and stop children from dying in hot cars.
Ex-smokers may have fewer and less severe hot flashes during menopause than women who continue to smoke, a small study suggests.
The building still looks more like a Target than a medical facility, but in a few months the site at 280 South Decatur Blvd. will be the new home of the Southern Nevada Health District.
An investigation into how U.S. Defense Department labs sent live anthrax spores to researchers failed to find a single root cause, but concluded that protocols to inactivate the bacteria were deficient.
An experimental Alzheimer’s drug being tested at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas has preserved more cognitive and functional ability in patients who took the medication early in the course of their disease, according to new data released on Wednesday.
There are an unusually high number of leprosy cases cropping up in Florida. Experts said they believe the spike is because of people coming into contact with armadillos. Florida typically sees two to 12 cases of leprosy a year, but so far there have been nine cases in 2015, according to the Florida Department of Health.
Remember the diaper-wearing astronaut that drove hours to confront her lover? The story got me wondering, not about the sordid love triangle, but about her diaper.
Sallyann Johnson considers herself a pretty savvy health care consumer. When she fell and injured her hands and wrists, she didn‘t head for an expensive emergency room, choosing an urgent care clinic near her Milwaukee home instead.
A French teenager infected at birth with HIV has shown the ability to control levels of the infection in her body — without being on antiretroviral treatment.
Nevada had one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the nation in 2013, but an analysis found the numbers in each county had dropped a tremendous amount over five years.
Laughlin residents and resorts no longer have to boil their water, the Las Vegas Valley Water District said Tuesday.
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