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The results of a police investigation into how catheters came apart killing one child and severely injuring another in the Sunrise Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit have been sent to the Clark County District Attorney’s office.
A federal arbitrator has ruled that a Sunrise Children’s Hospital nurse fired in connection with a 2010 baby death in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit should be reinstated with back pay, a spokesman for the nurse’s union said Thursday.
The perception of Las Vegas seems to be that our residents are on life support. But we are being misdiagnosed, Southern Nevada doctors say.
Dr. George Alexander, a board-certified cosmetic and plastic surgeon and president-elect of the Clark County Medical Society, takes a look at the state of the medicine and health care in Las Vegas.
Dr. Howard Baron, chief of pediatrics at Sunrise Children’s Hospital in Las Vegas and president of the Clark County Medical Society, takes a look at the state of the medicine and health care in Las Vegas.
Dr. Staci McHale, an obstetrician-gynecologist with the Meadows Women’s Center and member of the Clark County Medical Society, takes a look at the state of the medicine and health care in Las Vegas.
Dr. David Steinberg, managing partner of Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging, which has five imaging facilities in Las Vegas and Henderson, takes a look at the state of the medicine and health care in Las Vegas.
It was such a simple act, yet every time the pediatrician did it she managed to reinforce the notion that she had the best interests of my children at heart. Right after she entered the examination room, she washed her hands. Not all health care workers do.
It’s the beginning of a new year and you’re feeling the need to set some goals and give it the old college try.
Sadly, a few weeks later the once-top-priority goals become like those textbooks you lugged around campus, thrown aside or even exchanged for another endeavor. But this year is different. You’re going to stick to your goals..
Here’s a heaping helping of yuletide irony: Among the foods most often blamed for causing heartburn is peppermint. That’s right: If your Christmas traditions include downing a shot or two of Maalox to quell the fire in your belly, that innocent little candy cane just might be the culprit.
There are times when University Medical Center nurse Robin Parks wants to leave her patient’s room and howl in frustration.
“Some families just can’t handle the stigma of someone close to them having HIV, but pneumonia’s OK,” Parks says.
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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.