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Some children at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center call them by their first names. Others, the younger ones, will refer to them by other names, such as “Bubbles.”
The Children’s Specialty Center provides treatment to children with blood disorders and cancer regardless of their ability to pay for services. A recent grant from the nonprofit St. Baldrick’s Foundation awarded $245,000 to the center to expand its Long-Term Follow-Up Clinic, which provides follow-up care for childhood cancer survivors up to age 40.
Dr. Dale Carrison, chief of staff of University Medical Center, and Dr. Joseph Iser, chief medical officer of the Southern Nevada Health District, are the Las Vegas area members of a task force charged with planning for the possibility of a person with the Ebola virus coming to Nevada, state Department of Health and Human Services officials announced Wednesday.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
People have different ways of coping with the death of a loved one. But almost all agree: It’s a process.
A Japanese pharmaceutical company prevailed Thursday in a Las Vegas case involving two women who claimed the diabetes drug Actos caused them to develop bladder cancer.
Clark County has received 206 proposals to operate medical marijuana establishments from 109 companies jousting for a foothold in a new industry for Nevada.
Valley Hospital Medical Center plans to open a psychiatric unit that would ease crowding at local emergency rooms taxed by the demand for services from the mentally ill.
Roseman University of Health Sciences and the Nevada Cancer Institute Foundation have completed a merger that will reopen the cancer institute building in Las Vegas and could lead to the creation of a medical school at the site by 2017.
As Nevada’s Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital works to correct deficiencies and broaden services for the mentally ill, officials at other valley hospitals struggling under the burden of a patient population they’re ill-equipped to serve worry that too little is being done too slowly.
Positive. Everything, Konstantino Kouris remembered, was so positive about his ladylove’s pregnancy for almost nine months. His “Myla,” Lyudmyla Radchenko, loved being pregnant. She talked and talked to their baby inside her swollen belly.
Almost 300 people have become ill as a result of eating at the Paradise Road Firefly restaurant during a six-day period in April, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Southern Nevada Health District.
The Puppy Up! Walk is planned for Nov. 3 at Bruce Trent Park to benefit the 2 Million Dogs Foundation, which is helping fund canine cancer research and its link to human cancer.
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A federal website that tracks missing people has posted photos of the clothing worn by a man whose remains were found in a barrel at Lake Mead two years ago.
The three Lower Basin states collectively used the least amount of water since 1983, according to a Bureau of Reclamation report.
This year’s summer solstice is a day earlier than normal, and is the earliest in 228 years.
