Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital’s largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and mattresses.
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Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
LaTrina Reed is slowly bleeding out. Nearly a dozen growths are devouring the Las Vegas woman’s uterus and ovaries, and Reed, 49, hasn’t had a break from blood flow since February.
In the United States, where heart attacks and cancer are the biggest killers, the risk of contracting the Ebola virus is close to zero.
Locksmith Kevin Whitesides had just finished his shift at The Mirage when it was time for a visit to the dentist.
It’s been said that when a parent dies, you lose the past. When a child dies, you lose the future.
I felt better the minute I entered UMC’s Trauma Center the other day.
Standing near Moore and intently watching this scene play out is Heather Hudson, part of UMC’s Emergency Room Pre-Med Volunteers, generally college-age students who have expressed an interest in going into medicine.
Americans’ introduction to the Ebola virus came 25 years ago in an office park near Washington Dulles International Airport, a covert crisis that captivated the public only years later when it formed the basis of a bestselling book.
Open enrollment in new health insurance plans is more than three months away, but that hasn’t stopped the flood of sign-up questions into our inbox.
He had seen a transplant brochure from University Medical Center and it said that people who wanted to donate a kidney had to be age 55 or younger. Here he was at age 66 and in perfect health being told he couldn’t donate a kidney to the love of his life, his dear Mindy, even if his blood type was compatible.
A Las Vegas family that faced more than $1 million in unpaid medical bills due to a state insurance exchange mix-up is finally covered.
Healthcare.gov is supposed to fix Nevada’s Obamacare sign-up woes. But with consumer faith in exchanges badly shaken, not to mention lingering technical concerns with the incomplete federal site, observers say the Silver State is all but sure to face headwinds when enrollment begins again on Nov. 15.
A Los Angeles-based health organization has filed a formal complaint with the State of Nevada, alleging a California porn company did not require its actors to use condoms during an adult film shoot in Las Vegas.