Dr. Dale Carrison, chief of staff and head of emergency at University Medical Center, grimaced as he dragged his legs behind a walker and entered the waiting room of neurosurgeon Dr. William Smith.
“Don’t let anybody tell you different, back operations hurt,” Carrison said.
It may have been one of the first attributes you noticed about your significant other. In addition to charm, humor, dedication and the way his or her eyes twinkled, you undoubtedly glanced at your new love’s backside. Glutes can be attractive muscles.
But how do you make them attractive?
Bedbugs don’t make you sick. But the poisons used to kill them can. A government study released Thursday found that dozens of Americans have fallen ill from the insecticides, and a North Carolina woman died after using 18 cans of chemical fogger to attack the tiny blood suckers.
A recent series of surgery miscues, including the death of a patient after a gall bladder procedure, at Mike O’Callaghan Federal Hospital prompted a stand-down safety day this week at the Nellis Air Force Base hospital.
Saturday’s inaugural “This One’s for the Boys!” event, a 2-mile walk at UNLV’s Track & Field Stadium, is designed to raise funds for those with prostate cancer and emphasize the need for screenings and more research .
Seven Clark County residents have been stricken with West Nile virus, the severe form that can result in paralysis from inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. The Southern Nevada Health District said some victims are undergoing physical therapy at rehabilitation centers to help them regain their mobility and muscle strength, according to a health district disease investigator.
From him you can learn about Sjogren’s syndrome, the autoimmune disorder that caused tennis star Venus Williams to pull out of the recent U.S. Open. And from him you get a better sense of why Southern Nevada continues to have a shortage of doctors.
Anatomy 101 says people aren’t designed to fly. That doesn’t mean that we can’t have wings. The latissimus dorsi, in the back, tend to pop like wings when they are well developed. It’s one of coolest parts about helping people build muscles.
Little Cash Adams decided he wanted to fix the flickering TV on top of the dresser. So the 3-year-old, who had finished treatments for cancer only a few days earlier, pulled out drawers in the dresser to make a ladder.
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.
