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5 foods you should never eat before a workout

Not all pre-workout food is created equal. Choose wrong, and you can end up struggling to finish your exercise routine.

Do weighted vests really help you get in shape faster?

Weighted vests are increasingly showing up in fitness classes, touted as a way to keep bones healthy, improve performance and boost weight loss.

Waves of contentment: Swimming buoys mental well-being

Since my adolescent son recently started swimming competitively, I have been closely following the sport more than ever before.

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R-J reporter relates his cancer scare story

It’s 2 a.m. I can’t breathe. Literally. Can. Not. Breathe. It’s like someone duct taped my nose and mouth closed and the only way I can get air is to poke a hole in my cheek with a pen.

Immunization clinics scheduled for Aug. 21-28

The Southern Nevada Immunization Coalition and its partners will host back-to-school immunization clinics between August 21 and August 28 to vaccinate children against several diseases including mumps, hepatitis A and B, and varicella (chicken pox) and provide the Tdap inoculation against bordetella pertussis (whooping cough), which children entering the seventh-grade in are required to receive.

Alzheimer’s studies urge active retirement

Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, one of the world’s leading Alzheimer’s disease researchers, sits in his Las Vegas office and says a laid-back retirement may literally cause people to lose their minds.

Four county residents part of rare typhoid fever outbreak

Four people in Clark County are among the few nationwide exposed to a rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever, which has been linked to a frozen tropical fruit product used to make smoothies, health officials reported Thursday.

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