Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas will remain accredited after months of being in the national spotlight for allegations of patient dumping.
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A physician with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta testified Wednesday that she saw a nurse anesthetist charged in the hepatitis C outbreak improperly reuse a syringe months after the 2007 outbreak.
If worry about skin cancer doesn’t make you slather on sunscreen, maybe vanity will: New research provides some of the strongest evidence to date that near-daily sunscreen use can slow the aging of your skin.
A wildfire in Lovell Canyon near Mount Charleston is adding to the haze over Las Vegas caused by Southern California wildfires.
LONDON — Actor Michael Douglas taught the world at least one thing Monday: oral sex can sometimes cause cancer.
Fitness is universal. Good principles and proper techniques are evident in talented trainers across the Las Vegas Valley. Different coaches have different ways of explaining and illustrating proper technique, but the underlying principles are virtually the same.
When insurance companies and medical providers have one of their frequent wars over money, what too often happens is that you and me –– so often referred to as either a cherished policyholder or a cherished patient –– end up as collateral damage.
They point us in the direction of the produce section, can rattle off calorie counts like baseball stats and remind us that we are what we eat — which means some of us are more chocolate cake doughnut than fruit smoothie.
A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease is the top cancer killer of women.
What’s more nauseating than doing homework in high school? Doing homework while undergoing chemotherapy in high school.
Alcoholic beverages soon could have nutritional labels like those on food packaging, but only if the producers want to put them there.
A multistate outbreak of Hepatitis A apparently associated with a frozen organic berry blend made in Oregon has infected at least one Nevada resident with the disease, according to officials with the Southern Nevada Health District.
The government says Medicare’s giant hospital trust will not be exhausted until 2026, while the date that Social Security will exhaust its trust fund is unchanged at 2033.
The American College of Sports Fitness Index report released Wednesday shows that Las Vegas has four and a half times the number of dog parks considered necessary by experts.
Health inspectors who investigated the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas believe the transmission from an infected patient to uninfected patients in two separate procedure rooms occurred when open vials of the anesthetic propofol were transferred from one room to the next.
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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.