Farmers market season is in full swing and continues through the summer. According to Kerry Clasby, known as the Intuitive Forager and organizer of two local farmers markets, finding fresh, nutritious and organic produce in Las Vegas is easy, despite the fact it’s a desert community.
Even though we know so much more about protecting our skin from the sun, even though there is everything from sunscreen lip balm to special ultraviolet-blocking swimwear, skin cancer has actually been on the rise.
Positive. Everything, Konstantino Kouris remembered, was so positive about his ladylove’s pregnancy for almost nine months. His “Myla,” Lyudmyla Radchenko, loved being pregnant. She talked and talked to their baby inside her swollen belly.
Almost 300 people have become ill as a result of eating at the Paradise Road Firefly restaurant during a six-day period in April, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Southern Nevada Health District.
Over 2,000 uninsured patients receive free medical care at the Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada’s clinic at Paradise Park, inside the old recreation center. The nonprofit is now getting ready to establish a second free clinic for those who don’t have access to health care services.
Working out has many positive effects on your body. Besides keeping it in good shape, your body’s chemistry will see benefits. After a while you may even decide to help your body out by eating better.
“I’m fat.” It’s a phrase more than a few Americans utter to themselves in front of a mirror in those lowest of moments. But maybe you’re just full-figured? Nope. Your doctor says it’s time to lose some weight. Your scale says it and a few online calculators have weighed in on the issue, too.
Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials – a novel coronavirus in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in China.
Nevada kindergartners have a weighty problem, according to a statewide survey released Thursday of more than 8,000 families with children starting school.
A private psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas is stepping up to help mentally ill youth with a “very overdue” expansion to services.
Even as Shannon West Redwine writhed in pain at Sunrise Hospital in September, she had a message: With a family history of breast cancer and/or ovarian cancer, genetic testing for relatives can mean the difference between life and death.
Barb Morris has had shingles, carpal tunnel syndrome, heart problems, abdominal pains and pains in her neck, back and thighs. She has smoked, has drunk too much, has suffered depression and has used illicit drugs.
There are a few areas in my gym that give me 20 to 60 feet of empty space in which to do some challenging exercises. I’m talking things such as walking lunges holding dumbbells, inchworms, farmer’s walks and even today’s exercise, dragon crawls.
Keeping your business afloat in a tough economy is one thing. Keeping your business afloat in a tough economy while finding time to volunteer at an animal shelter, compete in triathlons, help a child through a kidney transplant or battle cancer? That’s another level of achievement altogether.
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.
