There’ll be no more private vendors for Nevada Health Link. The board of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange voted Thursday to end its search for a company to replace Xerox, which lost its contract following the health link’s glitch-ridden rollout.
A new diet pill Contrave got approval to be sold in the United States on Wednesday, only the third obesity treatment in more than a decade to win approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Over time, we have all learned that some advertising about products may appear compelling, but the real facts about the product are not accurately or entirely revealed. In other words, the latest buzz factor or craze surrounding a product (like “fat free”) might actually overshadow some other important facts.
Surviving a car crash can feel like a miracle, but the process of putting together the pieces of one’s life does not end after the last stitch has been removed. Sunrise resident Scottie Briscoe, 52, survived such an accident, but she experienced intense back pain, until one day while picking up her grandson from the floor, her back snapped.
Montevista Hospital on Monday held an open house for its $7 million expansion that will help reduce the need to send juveniles out of state for psychiatric residential treatment.
Hundreds of children across the U.S. Midwest have been stricken by a potentially serious respiratory illness, and many states are asking for federal help testing and tracking cases, according to federal and state health officials.
Everyone gets down, but it is the ability to bounce back that separates those times people are feeling blue for a day from actual depression.
The Silver State serves as an microcosm of the country’s mental health professional shortage.
To answer a caller’s question, the state exchange and Medicaid are two different things, and neither affects the other. People who make too much to qualify for Medicaid — that’s more than $16,105 a year for a single and $32,913 for a family of four — have to buy private coverage through the exchange.
The more television children watched at age 10, the more they watched in middle age, according to a new report that suggests the need for earlier interventions to get kids off the couch.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
With more than 123,000 people on the nationwide organ transplant waiting list, Nevada Donor Network aims to raise awareness and educate the public on becoming registered donors through community events.
Pilots and flight attendants may be at an increased risk of developing the most deadly form of skin cancer, suggests a new analysis.
In the debate over whether chocolate is good or bad, some nutritionists are talking about the potential health benefits it might have.
The very makeup of their schedules puts night shift workers at higher risk compared with their daytime counterparts for a variety of health issues, including heart disease, depression, obesity and diabetes.
