The battle over maintaining life support for a 20-year-old Las Vegas woman continues this week in Reno. It focuses on the question of when is a person considered dead.
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For the fifth consecutive year, Southern Hills Medical Center in Las Vegas has made the list of top performing hospitals compiled by the independent agency that accredits the most U.S. health care organizations.
In an old ad campaign, Gatorade asked athletes, “Is it in you?”
More than 100 women who thought they were protected from pregnancy by their birth control pills have filed a lawsuit against a manufacturer because the pills were packaged incorrectly.
Guys, listen up: There’s another reason to limit your intake of sugary or artificially sweetened sodas: It might contribute to heart failure. Researchers followed the food habits of 42,000 Swedish men over 12 years and found that men who drank at least two sweetened beverages a day had a 23 percent higher risk of going into heart failure.
The chief operating officer of a Henderson fitness business that offers cryotherapy looks forward to talking with state health and businesss officials about the safety of the procedure and any plans for oversight.
Recently, doctors in Napa, Calif., found a tapeworm in a man’s brain that nearly killed him. And there are other equally disturbing parasites to worry about, some more common than you think.
The Pavilion Center pool in Summerlin is the site of a different kind of fitness class: log rolling. Students in the City of Las Vegas program work on balance and agility in a four-week program.
The vaccine given to prevent cervical cancer in women could end up saving men’s lives, too.
CARSON CITY — Researchers at Nevada’s medical school and University Medical Center in Las Vegas will share $8 million for projects and programs aimed at improving women’s health, thanks to a 2014 settlement with a major drug company, the attorney general’s office announced Wednesday.