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Battling cancer is bad enough without having it also ravage your skin. Chemicals such as chemotherapy affect those cells as well as cancer cells, so certified aesthetician and Summerlin-area resident Lia Yulianti volunteers her time to teach cancer patients how to care for their skin.
You would have done the same thing, I know you would have. Maybe I’ll end up in hot water; if I do, it would have been worth it.
The effort is called Be the Match, but it may as well be called Be the Hero. It asks regular residents to see if their DNA might save the life of another by signing up for the marrow registry. People can sign up at the inaugural Las Vegas Marrowthon, planned April 11 at Bruce Trent Park.
When it comes to therapy dogs, everyone knows they do good work. Now two local dogs have a chance to shine for Las Vegas, but they need your votes.
It took Cynthia “Ms. Cjay” Judge 11 years after her first mastectomy to notice the swelling in her right hand. The two-time breast cancer survivor didn’t know what caused it. Her surgeon put her on a course of antibiotics, and though the swelling became progressively worse, doctor visits often ended with more prescriptions for pills.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Black Canyon National Water Trail in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area is one of only 16 national water trails in the United States and the first one in the Southwest. Designated last year, this Colorado River corridor stretches from Hoover Dam about 30 miles downstream to Lake Mojave.
In 2009, a bell choir formed at the Blind Center of Southern Nevada using the technology of ARBECY, the brainchild of choir director Jerry Simon, a music therapist major.