By BRIAN SODOMA
Health
About one in four Nevada kindergartners is obese, according to a recent report, which might seem startling but doesn’t surprise Diana Taylor.
Although she always wanted to have children, at 27 years old Trina Mills was single and not thinking of a future family when she learned she had a bone marrow disease that could require chemotherapy. Doctors didn’t mention the treatment would likely leave her infertile until the San Diego-resident’s mother asked.
Divine intervention could be what is needed to keep Anahi Hernandez and dozens of other Nevada children and adults from an unending sound of silence, now that officials at University Medical Center, the last hospital in the state to offer cochlear implants, have said it is has become financially impossible to continue the procedures.
So pretty. So bright. So vivacious. So loved. So threatened. So it is to be 7-year-old Elizabeth Church. “I love to play bingo,” the smiling straight-A student says.
At least one person impersonating a health inspector is calling local restaurants, collecting personal information and claiming it is needed for an upcoming health inspection, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
Excitement washed over Bryan de Simas when he heard Wednesday that the government guarantees health insurance to those with pre-existing problems such as him.
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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.