Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
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Southern Nevadans are only at the beginning of the influenza season with no indication of how severe the season might become, a public health spokeswoman said Wednesday.
While it is always important to moderate alcohol intake, it is especially important at this time of the year where there are more opportunities to drink. Let’s take a look at some important facts about alcohol that may help us make wise decisions.
The Nevada Board of Osteopathic Medicine is considering new standards for treating patients with chronic pain to help prevent highly addictive painkillers from being dispensed to people without a medical need.
A health worker who has become the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in Britain was being treated at a London hospital on Tuesday after contracting the disease in West Africa.
Rod Davis, director of the strategy and management of Dignity Health Nevada including the St. Rose Dominican campuses and subsidiary organizations, retires at the end of this year after 23 years in his current position and more than 40 in hospital administration.
The new year brings with it new opportunities to make lifestyle adjustments. While many individuals pursue physical fitness, some turn to alternative healing methods to keep a healthy mind and spirit.
Dr. Dale Carrison, chairman of emergency medicine and chief of staff at University Medical Center, calls Southern Nevada the “Kidney Stone Capital of the World.” The dry climate contributes to the dehydration that is one of the major factors in developing the stones.
Doing a beginning-of-the-year inventory of the family first aid kid? It might be worth asking your doctor about adding an EpiPen.
Dietitians are wary of products and diets that promise quick cleanses. Sometimes they are just diuretics, causing fluids to pass through the body more quickly. Others can cause real harm as the body turns on itself.
The latest version of the exchange, launched Nov. 15 via the federal healthcare.gov site, works well, but hundreds of residents still lack insurance they paid for, and a lawsuit looms in early 2015.
There’s a workout room with elliptical machines, free weights and medicine balls; a lunchroom with free entrees, soups and salad bar; and a fun room with a pingpong table. It’s not a Las Vegas resort or hotel on the Strip, but the corporate offices of the company that owns hotels in Las Vegas
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
Lifting the United States’ lifetime ban on blood donations by gay and bisexual men came as bittersweet news to some Southern Nevadans because there’s a caveat: Regulators will recommend those potential donors remain celibate for a year before they give.
Express Scripts, the largest manager of prescription drug plans for U.S. employers, is taking an increasingly aggressive stance in price negotiations with pharmaceutical companies after winning discounts on medications with a strategy introduced last year.
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