When Danielle Greisen gave birth in July to a daughter at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas, she had no idea another infant there had tuberculosis.
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Since a woman who gave birth to twins in a Clark County hospital later died from tuberculosis, 26 people with whom she came in contact have tested positive for the disease. About 200 people had been tested before Monday.
Finally! I am not the only one in my house who makes a mess. My daughter, inheriting my untidy gene, likes to leave her toys all over the house. Just like me, she gets carried away having fun and before long the house is a wreck.
For years, he said, scientists have been studying — basically in relation to brain cancer — the form of energy given off by cellphones known as radiofrequency waves, a type of nonionizing radiation that the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”
Who would you rather see standing beside your bed when you wake up from surgery? Someone wearing that white coat? Or somebody wearing a Metallica T-shirt?
They were mystery diseases that had stumped doctors for years — adults with strange symptoms and children with neurological problems, mental slowness or muscles too weak to let them stand. Now scientists say they were able to crack a quarter of these cases by decoding the patients’ genes.
Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services on Friday afternoon held an open house at its new Drop-In Center near Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas. Gov. Brian Sandoval and Sen. Joe Hardy, R-Boulder City, attended the event.
Experts in eating disorders are concerned about an Internet-fueled trend in which teenage girls and young women pursue an elusive and possibly dangerous weight-loss goal: to become so slender that their thighs don’t touch even when their feet are together.
When the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange opened Tuesday, Nevada fired its first big salvo in the fight to cover its uninsured.
Hold your nose and don’t spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people’s poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do “fecal transplants.”
Too often in her memories, Shiela Burns sees what terrifies her. Blood at first seeping, then spurting from tumors on the chest and back of her twin sister, Las Vegas optometrist Dr. Sheryl Potter-Peccole.
The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange launched Tuesday morning to a few small bugs, but also to solid call-in and website volumes.
Americans got their first chance Tuesday to shop for health insurance using the online marketplaces that are at the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but government websites designed to sell the policies struggled to handle the traffic, with many frustrated users reporting trouble setting up accounts.
A 30-year-old infertile woman gave birth after surgeons removed her ovaries and re-implanted tissue they treated in a lab, researchers report.
More than half of Nevadans believe Obamacare will increase their medical costs, according to a poll released Monday by the Retail Association of Nevada.