Miley Cyrus is in the hospital and unable to perform her “Bangerz” concert in Kansas City, Mo., as planned. A spokeswoman for the singer says the 21-year-old canceled her performance Tuesday after she was hospitalized for a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics.
Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar owners John and Tabitha Simmons announced Tuesday that they’re closing their Henderson location at 11261 S. Eastern Ave. The Henderson restaurant was recently issued 38 demerits, and a C grade, following a March 31 inspection by the Southern Nevada Health District.
I like training sports athletes. It’s fun to create a program for people with sport-specific performance as their goal. It’s a diversion from my usual efforts to make a male athlete “buff” or a female athlete “toned.”
It’s an opportunity.
Patients and impatience —often they go together like unflattering hospital gowns and exposed derrieres.
Nevada Health Link’s open enrollment ended March 31, but the stream of questions into our email inbox continues unabated.
In many ways, Cody Lewis represents the changing face of heroin in America. He is in his 20s, lives in the suburbs and graduated to heroin after years of getting high with other drugs. “My whole existence,” he says, “was just finding ways to get high.”
Two new studies describe the latest achievements in growing body parts in a lab and transplanting them into people, this time with nostrils and vaginas.
The calorie counting that defined dieting for so long is giving way to other considerations, like the promise of more fiber or natural ingredients. That is chipping away at the popularity of products like Diet Coke, Lean Cuisine and Special K, which became weight-watching staples primarily by stripping calories from people’s favorite foods.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
The board of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange received fresh statistics on new members that have signed up so far in a 60-day special enrollment session that began April 1.
The Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Summerlin Hospital Medical Center for eight violations linked to a fatal tuberculosis outbreak last year.
Southern Nevada health officials repeated the hand-washing mantra Wednesday after saying at least 200 people in the Las Vegas-area caught a recent stomach bug.
Clark County School District and Southern Nevada Health District officials hope to wrap up a first round of tuberculosis testing at Liberty High School on Tuesday.
Like thousands of others, a pair of Clark County women received no adequate warning that the diabetes drug they took could lead to bladder cancer, a warning label expert testified Monday in a potentially multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the maker of Actos.
