Roughly 300,000 Nevadans in small towns like Tonopah or rural communities are facing a dearth of hospitals or other medical care facilities.
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This might be the ultimate do-it-yourself project: Doctors are testing a device that would let women do part of their own breast reconstruction at home.
Spanking and hitting children to discipline them has become much less common in recent decades as more parents choose non-physical approaches like “time-outs” instead, a U.S. study suggests.
There is a growing movement of moms raving about the health wonders of eating placenta. A UNLV-led small-sample study released last week suggests that new moms who eat their placenta hoping for increases to their iron levels may be disappointed.
Teaching patients about food — what to eat, how to cook it, how to tweak what they’re already eating to make it a bit healthier — isn’t something most physicians are trained to do. But a lesson on the Mediterranean diet and a little time in the kitchen during a workshop in Las Vegas, prepared them to answer patient questions about diet.
Sherry Jasperson and Kate Rasmussen aren’t your average grandmother-granddaughter duo. Their days together may be filled with fun and love, but they’re also immersed in health care and politics.
The goal is to present nursing students with difficult situations they probably will face on the job and help them improve the interpersonal communication skills they’ll need when that happens.
Careers suffer, relationships are shattered and municipalities are left to fight a crisis. Addiction can affect everything.
The way Sam Kaufman, CEO of Henderson Hospital, describes the newly opened facility, it sounds like a hotel.
One of Las Vegas’ latest food-related digital advances is a world away from the fancy restaurants on the Strip, and it’s already making a world of difference for those using it.