Citing an anthrax scare and other safety problems, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said it shut down two research labs and stopped shipping highly dangerous germs to other labs.
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Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
The board of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange has named Bruce Gilbert to the agency’s top job. Gilbert will make $117,000 a year in the position.
Tonya Rushing, the former clinic manager for Dr. Dipak Desai, has struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors in her health care fraud case stemming from the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.
Dozens of mothers gathered for a protest Wednesday, exercising their right to breastfeed in public as part of a “nurse in” staged at the Centennial Hills YMCA.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Like about 76 million other Americans, Carl Reiber has hypertension.
It was one of those things that was always in the back of Bill Kading’s mind.
In my early college years, before I got into training, I used to install window coverings here in Las Vegas.
Clark Flatt knows all too well how the epidemic of teen suicide can creep into any home without any warning. His son Jason committed suicide when he was 16.
Xerox is supposed to stick around through November to run Nevada Health Link’s website, but some insurance sources say the contractor essentially has bailed on the project.
It may not destroy your soul, but it turns out heavy metal music can be hazardous to your brain. At least in some rare cases.
The effects of eye degeneration caused by the sun are like putting money into a piggy bank.
Victoria Duval, an 18-year-old American tennis player, has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma but expects to make a full recovery within months after undergoing treatment for the cancer.
The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture said Thursday night it has found evidence directly linking Foster Farms boneless-skinless chicken breast to a case of Salmonella Heidelberg.