The more I think about the number of people taking anti-depressants government statistics show one in 10 Americans over the age of 12 taking them the more depressed I become.
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What good is muscle if it’s not usable? All those lunges and leg presses, with isolated quad and hamstring conditioning, need to be good for something. Right? You can put all your hard work to the test with plyometrics.
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Hospitals in Clark County, many of them in financial intensive care since the recession, are showing signs of recovery.
At 54, Elizabeth Gorka is a rarity of rarities — she’s battling two of the 7,000 diseases that the world’s top health officials classify as rare. There are no cures for what ails her, and doctors often try new drugs and treatments to manage her symptoms.
Herb Gilbert is 90, and that means enduring people acting as though he can’t think and can’t hear, which he said became even more frustrating recently during two short hospital stays.
Medical professionals, he said, engaged in what researchers refer to as “elderspeak.”
Are your abs showing yet?
There’s still a little time before swimsuit season, but you need to start now. Put down the sugar cereal and toss out those pastries. Hide the TV remote and get the exercise play list ready.
Here are a couple more core exercises to add to your routines.
Burns covering 85 percent of Charlie Kleck’s body serve as his only reminder of a boating accident on Lake Powell in Arizona last summer.
If the Las Vegas area had the same percentage of insured adults as Boston, then 272,090 more Southern Nevadans would be covered by health insurance. A found nearly 30 percent of Las Vegans are uninsured and 69.7 percent have a usual source of care, far below the national median of 82.4 percent.
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Many breast cancer survivors would tell you that the day they were diagnosed was the hardest day of their lives. For Brandi Ellis, a Las Vegas mother of three diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma in May 2020, the first thing she did was walk downstairs to tell her family — her “first line of defense,” as she calls them.