The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board picked an interim leader on Thursday and worked on ways to help Xerox, the contractor designing Nevada Health Link’s website.
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Hospital emergency rooms throughout the valley are closing their doors to ambulances because the mentally ill are now occupying available beds at a rate higher than in 2004, when the problem prompted then Gov. Kenny Guinn to declare a state of emergency.
Federal health regulators will consider this week whether to green light a provocative new fertilization technique that could eventually create babies from the DNA of three people, with the goal of preventing mothers from passing on debilitating genetic diseases to their children.
Jump stretch bands are starting to appear in gyms.
If Thelma French lived in Michigan instead of Las Vegas, chances are good she’d be facing five years in prison and a $50,000 fine for what she laughingly calls “renting my uterus.”
Milton Knauer, who spent much of his working life developing motors for garbage disposals, knew late last year that his own motor was wearing out fast.
Affording insurance isn’t getting any easier for rural Nevadans.
More change is in the wind for the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange’s troubled Nevada Health Link website. The exchange’s board met Friday, the day after its executive director announced his resignation.
Two Western states with some of the nation’s lowest smoking rates are considering cracking down even more by raising the tobacco age to 21. Utah and Colorado lawmakers both voted favorably on proposals Thursday to treat tobacco like alcohol and take it away from 18- to 20-year-olds, a move inspired by new research on how many smokers start the habit as teenagers.
Shane DeMille, a dietitian at University Medical Center, has been a registered dietitian for 15 years. In that time, he hasn’t seen much change in the dietary guidelines for reducing the risk of heart disease.
A viral drinking game, said to have started in Australia and spreading like wildfire the last few weeks on Facebook and other social media, has claimed the lives of five men under the age of 30, and now the game is sweeping the globe.
Losing his hands and feet after acquiring a flesh-eating bacteria, Henderson resident Eddie Garcia said people often assume that 2013 was the worst year of his life. “But 2013 was the best year,” he said. “I cheated death. These are just my battle scars.”
More test-tube babies were born in the United States in 2012 than ever before, and they constituted a higher percentage of total births than at any time since the technology was introduced in the 1980s, according to a report released on Monday.
You don’t have to be a psychologist to understand that there’s a good bit of emotional turmoil accompanying a decision by a cancer patient on whether to participate in the first in-human trial of an anti-cancer drug.
Believe it or not, some people actually use their abs as a lure to the opposite sex. Worse yet, some think that if they never achieve six-pack definition, they are lacking a crucial element to hooking the right fish in the ocean of compatible mates.
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Like many of us, Michael Towns once struggled to lose weight due to inconsistent dieting and overeating, and that struggle came with a series of health complications.