Health
In 1998, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy were keeping mum about the secret work that went on at Area 51, a widely known Air Force installation near the northeast corner of the Nevada Test Site.
Nuclear Care Partners and the full picture of care for Nevada’s atomic workers
Most people see the part above the surface: a compassionate nurse arriving at the door, a reassuring hand, care that feels deeply personal. But that moment is just one piece of a much larger picture.
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.
