By SHARON CHAYRA
Health
Less than three years ago, Ken Perrigo’s problems with balance often had him crashing to the floor. To get around the house safely, he began crawling. He was so stiff it would take him nearly an hour to go the short distance from one room to another.
By KRISTI EATON
Sharon Ochoa-Reyes, who worked in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Sunrise Hospital, cries as she recounts her ordeal. “It’s so hard to have people thinking I’m a monster,” the mother of four said.
By KRISTI EATON
Leonard and Jean Georges share a laugh at the assisted-living home where he resides. After her husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Jean Georges read all she could about the disease. She now works as a volunteer in the library at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
The Southern Nevada Health District will offer free seasonal flu vaccinations beginning Monday. The health district had planned to charge $32 for the flu shot and $43 for the inhaled flu vaccine.
Though health officials said Thursday they want everyone over 6 months of age to get a flu shot, they also said only enough vaccine will be available for about half of the more than 310 million Americans. But that shouldn’t be a problem, because misconceptions about flu shots continue to keep people from being vaccinated.
Clark County commissioners Wednesday chose 11 people with diverse backgrounds for an advisory board they hope will make University Medical Center become more efficient and evolve into a teaching hospital.
There are certain health conditions that women are more predisposed to than men, among those diseases are breast cancer, cervical cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis and a wide array of health conditions — but what a lot of women don’t know is that biologically, their vision health is also more at risk than a man’s.
Sandy Waide’s grandson was having a difficult time in preschool. He ignored his teacher’s instructions and refused to sit still. One morning he took a fish out of the classroom aquarium. That ended up being his last day there.
Sponsored Content
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.