I am a fan of the standard Olympic bar for lifting weights. Gyms wouldn’t be the same without them. Don’t get me wrong, machines are swell. But I prefer the feel of an old-fashioned barbell. The cold steel coated in nickel with a knurled finish is like a 45-pound vacation from the world. It brings out my inner caveman, grunts and all.
Allegations of patient dumping at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital gained the attention of federal and independent agencies that sent investigators to the Las Vegas facility Thursday and Friday.
A salmonella outbreak traced to a trendy tapas restaurant sickened nearly 90 people so far and is considered the worst of its kind in Southern Nevada in a decade, a health official said Wednesday.
Federal health regulators are just now deciding whether triclosan — the germ-killing ingredient found in an estimated 75 percent of anti-bacterial liquid soaps and body washes sold in the U.S. — is ineffective, or worse, harmful.
Salmonella made dozens of people sick after eating at the Firefly Tapas Kitchen and Bar on Paradise Road last week, health officials said Tuesday. At least 39 people fell ill after eating at the popular eatery, prompting the Southern Nevada Health District to close the restaurant Friday.
Two Nevada state employees were fired Monday, and three others will receive lesser discipline, in the investigation of alleged cross-border dumping of mental patients, state officials announced Monday.
Wesley Warren Jr., the 48-year-old Las Vegas man whose emotional and physical struggles with a 132-pound scrotum drew international attention, has undergone successful surgery to remove the mass, according to the California surgeon who led the team that performed the nearly 13-hour procedure.
If the smile on Don Laughlin’s face became any broader you suspect he’d have to make an emergency landing at a nearby hospital to receive treatment for a dislocated temporomandibular joint.
It’s OK to admit it. You’re afraid of the stability ball. More so of falling off the ball. I’ve seen it before. It is a real concern for new gymgoers.
When Irene C. Smith found out that her 14-year-old son had Type 1 diabetes, she vowed not to sit around and feel sorry for herself. When problems arose at her son’s school in New Jersey, she realized the disease itself was only the beginning of the struggle.
Some suffer from severe psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has given Nevada 10 days to correct “serious deficiencies” in its mental health discharge policies or face a loss of federal funding.
We’re in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready. A new poll examined how people 40 and over are preparing for this difficult and often pricey reality of aging, and found two-thirds say they’ve done little to no planning.
A Las Vegas physician has had her license suspended by the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners for allowing an employee to practice medicine without a license.
The city attorney for San Francisco announced Monday that his office will investigate allegations of mental health patient dumping by Nevada, which already is under federal review for its discharge practices.
