The chief medical officer of a Las Vegas company could be meeting within days with the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about a monitoring device that could be a pivotal tool in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus.
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October marks the start of the annual flu season. Your best defenses include a flu shot, washing your hands frequently and staying home if you feel sick.
Michael Tatalovich enjoys photography, so Instagram is his go-to site for social media. That didn’t change when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2013 and decided to document his experience through photos on the popular website.
We’re more than a month out from the Nov. 15 launch of Nevada Health Link 2.0. Still, given the first go-round’s disastrous results, it’s worth looking in now on how advance prep work is going for the new rollout.
Health insurance is one of the most important purchases you’ll ever make. And because the time to buy is right around the corner, we’re here to help you brush up on the basics.
Patients in pain worry they might have trouble filling their prescriptions because of the new federal rules for painkillers.
Advances in knowledge and technology have made the less-invasive lumpectomy a more attractive course of treatment for those in the earliest stage of breast cancer.
Stepped up efforts by the U.S. to halt the spread of the Ebola virus will start at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday, where teams armed with thermal guns and questionnaires will screen travelers from West African countries hit hardest by the outbreak.
Everybody affected by cancer has a story, and sometimes they tell that story with a tattoo rather than words.
A young passenger who got sick Friday on a flight to Las Vegas and was quarantined for Ebola precautions upon landing was allowed to continue with his mother after any risk of the deadly virus was ruled out.
Southern Nevadans are invited to participate Saturday in Zumbathon for Community Health from 10 a.m. to noon at the West Career and Technical Academy at 11945 W. Charleston Blvd. in Las Vegas.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Here’s a list of activities and tie-ins planned in observance of National Breast Cancer Awareness month, which is aimed at raising awareness and funds for breast cancer research and treatment.
Do-it-yourself flu vaccine? It could happen. Military folks who squirted vaccine up their noses were as well-protected as others who got it from health workers, a study found.
Shannon Osborne began conversing with her son, Elijah, when he was still crawling. That was 15 years ago. Now, she teaches other parents how to communicate with their child through sign language in Wee Can Sign classes on the campus of Summerlin Hospital.
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