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This simple diet flex can lower risk of heart disease

What if a simple tweak to your diet could significantly reduce your risk of heart disease without requiring you to go entirely meat-free?

Is there an optimal time of day to work out?

It’s a long-standing discussion for all who want to get into shape. When is the best time to exercise? Morning and evening workouts both have their benefits.

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FDA orders recall for Las Vegas company’s kratom products

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a mandatory recall on a list of kratom-containing food products manufactured by Las Vegas company Triangle Pharmanaturals LLC.

 
Las Vegas Strip shooter prescribed anti-anxiety drug in June

A Henderson doctor wrote a prescription for the drug diazepam for Stephen Paddock, 64 of Mesquite and he filled it the same day in Reno, according to a state Prescription Monitoring Program record obtained by the Review-Journal.

Las Vegas man builds friendship with bone marrow donor in Poland

Six years years ago, Ron Gross of Las Vegas, , then a 60-year-old computer instructor who also did security at the Rio, never dreamed he’d need a bone marrow stem cell transplant from a woman nearly 6,000 miles away to stay alive.

Officials say Las Vegas Medical District’s economic vital signs improving

A slow but steady journey with occasional spurts of impressive growth — that’s how Las Vegas Deputy City Manager Scott Adams sees the future of the Las Vegas Medical District now that the UNLV School of Medicine is becoming a reality.

Feds launch brain health campaign at Las Vegas expo

Las Vegas became one of the first host cities on Saturday to launch the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ campaign, “What is Brain Health?” More than 15,000 people flocked to the Successful Aging Expo at Cashman Center to find out about finances, health and nutrition, and more.

Doctors say be generous with sunscreen

Shunning sunscreen due to potentially dubious ingredients may do you more harm than good.