In the two weeks before 16-year-old Joe Miller killed himself, he seemed to throw off his despair. He watched his younger brother and sister while his parents were out. He even took his mother out for ice cream three times.
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Sion Lee, a 32-year-old graphic and Web designer in Las Vegas, has replaced his regular desk with a TrekDesk treadmill desk. Instead of sitting, he spends his days walking at about 2 mph, a pace that lets him talk on the phone without breathing hard and use his computer without falling off.
Residents now can discard unwanted or expired prescriptions in drop boxes at five Henderson Police Department locations.
It sat in front of him, on top of a pillow that rested on a milk crate. He sprinkled baby powder on it — what looked like a huge watermelon encased in a compression bandage — but the unmistakable smell of urine couldn’t be completely smothered.
Tormented by disabling treatments, debilitating pain and relentless collection agencies, Ginger Fisher said last year that the interventions to keep her alive caused problems she wished neither she nor her family had to deal with.
Only 39 when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she was 42 when she died recently.
Most men don’t do certain exercises because they think they look to “girly.”
They tend to avoid the abduction (outer thigh) and adduction (inner thigh) machines, apparently thinking they’re only for women. I hope that after reading today’s column, many men will leave their machismo at home the next time they work their legs.
Two studies last week raised gnawing worries about the safety of vitamin supplements and a host of questions.
Terrified, Deanna Wise lay in a hospital bed and prayed. Her doctor, a specialist concerned with the care of the mother and fetus in high-risk pregnancies, had told her to get to St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus, immediately.
State Sen. Joe Hardy decided Tuesday that performance art could best describe how the new national health care law would change the system.
Charlie Kimball keeps a sharp eye on all the usual gauges — speed, lap time, oil pressure — any IndyCar does during a race. But Kimball has another gauge in the cockpit, one that tracks his blood glucose level. Kimball has Type 1 diabetes, a condition characterized by high blood glucose levels in the body.
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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.