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Review-Journal begins series of Alzheimer’s stories

Alzheimer’s disease is a rising storm, threatening to not only steal the golden years from millions of Americans, but also cripple their loved ones emotionally and financially.

Support group looks to help those with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Northwest Las Vegas resident Virginia Mamone, 39, knows CMT all too well. Because of the confusing name, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, she tells people it is a neuromuscular disorder. She has had it for roughly 15 years. It began as a tingling in both of her little fingers.

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Modern school nurses administer medicine, advice and hugs

Las Vegas Day School parent Barbara Gaughan was scared and nervous. Her son, John, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was 6 years old, and needed shots all day long.

For better mobility, strength, mix dead lifts into your routines

Once upon a time, dead lifts were called health lifts. That’s because they are one of the most functional movements out there. Practicing them and getting to a point where you can do them well brings huge benefits.

Questions abound over cancer center funds, future

University of California San Diego Health System’s stance that it will keep the Nevada Cancer Institute open, although at least partly contradicted by one of its top officials, raises questions about a critical financial condition that was part of the ownership change in January.

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