Patsy Quinn knows what the agitation that so often accompanies Alzheimer’s disease can mean.
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There was a time when Marla, a local mother of a 10-year-old boy with mental illness, kept handmade laminated cards with her whenever she took the child out of the house. “My son is bipolar,” they read, “please just walk away.”
Chances are better than good that you or someone in your family has already suffered from it. It really doesn’t surprise you all that much when it happens –– cramps, diarrhea, vomiting.
One of my favorite sights at the gym is parents teaching their children the importance of fitness. Many times it is a father teaching a son, or mother working out with her daughter. Seeing the tandem warm-ups and subsequent lifting is a thing of beauty to me.
While some cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients –– an action clinic administrators blame on sequester budget cuts –– that disruption in care is not under way in Las Vegas.
One of the state’s leading insurers, Health Plan of Nevada, “acted in bad faith regarding its obligation to provide insurance coverage” to patients, a Clark County jury found Thursday.
An angry-looking blemish is found to be MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus). Odd back pain reveals pancreatic cancer. A nagging virus or bacterial infection then morphs into life-threatening sepsis.
When 11-year-old Mackenzi Moers receives an intravenous blood product designed to boost her fragile immune system –– every three weeks her condition, called hypogammaglobulinemia, requires her to undergo a taxing six-hour regimen that supplies her with antibodies to help fight infection –– she is troubled by what she sees.
‘Chris, I’m going to eat broccoli and drink lemon water for six weeks! Does that sound like a good diet?”
For Dr. Edwin “Flip” Homansky, Las Vegas was supposed to be a yearlong pit stop on the way to a career as a heart doctor back east.
Pit Bull and ballet don’t normally go together. Yet here at barre3, at The District, the reggaeton artist’s music is blasting and women are plieing. There are no pointe shoes in sight, though.
Cindy Derouin, director of pharmacy at Valley Hospital Medical Center, heard the cough in the next supermarket aisle. It was a deep, dry cough.
Well before Dr. Dipak Desai faced criminal charges, Dr. Charles Cohan gave you the sense that the best the physician at the center of the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas should hope for professionally is popping prisoners’ hemorrhoids, if he was allowed to practice medicine at all.
Have you ever driven a car with the emergency brake on? How about trying to get a tan wearing a coat? Absorb the information in a textbook by osmosis? Exercising with tight muscles can be just as frustrating.
Although robust by one measure, a thorough examination of the Las Vegas hospital industry’s financial health indicates that it is not ready for discharge, even after a lengthy convalescence.
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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.