WASHINGTON — For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment, even within the same city.
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Sean Willingham figures he’s racked up more than a half-dozen significant injuries during his bull riding career.
Public health officials in Nevada and California are searching for a man who may have been exposed to rabies during an April 30 visit to Mojave National Preserve, 90 miles southwest of Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — Insurance enrollments mandated by the massive health care overhaul are scheduled to start in five months but there are growing doubts on Capitol Hill that the government will be ready.
As I left Good Night Pediatrics in Henderson –– an all-night urgent care for kids at 2651 Green Valley Parkway –– I took a trip down memory lane, remembering late nights 30 years ago with my own children when they were little and hurting.
I am a fan of the standard Olympic bar for lifting weights. Gyms wouldn’t be the same without them. Don’t get me wrong, machines are swell. But I prefer the feel of an old-fashioned barbell. The cold steel coated in nickel with a knurled finish is like a 45-pound vacation from the world. It brings out my inner caveman, grunts and all.
Allegations of patient dumping at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital gained the attention of federal and independent agencies that sent investigators to the Las Vegas facility Thursday and Friday.
A salmonella outbreak traced to a trendy tapas restaurant sickened nearly 90 people so far and is considered the worst of its kind in Southern Nevada in a decade, a health official said Wednesday.
Federal health regulators are just now deciding whether triclosan — the germ-killing ingredient found in an estimated 75 percent of anti-bacterial liquid soaps and body washes sold in the U.S. — is ineffective, or worse, harmful.