Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
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Adults with substance abuse problems have a new way to recover through a local center that promises personalized treatment and extended care.
An elderly blind veteran crying in pain spent four hours and 45 minutes in the emergency room of the VA Medical Center in North Las Vegas before seeing a doctor in October, but federal inspectors said in a report Wednesday that such long waits were not unusual for patients at the hospital.
Bacteria resistant to antibiotics have now spread to every part of the world and might lead to a future where minor infections could kill, according to a report published Wednesday by the World Health Organization.
The state’s health insurance exchange on Wednesday put off a decision on a fix for its struggling Nevada Health Link website even as state officials urged a fast decision.
Jeffery Talbot, the director of the Research Center on Substance Abuse and Depression at Roseman University of Health Sciences in Henderson, is convinced that far too many suicides occur because currently available antidepressants take much too long to take effect, if they work at all.
The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board today will get a detailed consultant’s report on problems with its troubled Nevada Health Link website and consider fixes that could include firing the firm that built it.
A national report card on patient safety gave a failing grade to University Medical Center, long regarded as having one of the country’s top trauma units. It was one of only 22 hospitals nationwide to receive such low marks.
As she finished the hot dog and Baby Ruth bar she was eating inside the convenience store, the rotund young mother made breakfast for her two little ones.
A while ago I got a good idea from a reader about a bells versus bells column. He was referring to kettlebells versus dumbbells and which is better.
To put it nicely, some children are not exactly morning birds.
Brent Leavitt, an insurance broker with Nevada Benefits in Las Vegas, has signed up more enrollees through the state exchange than any other agent. With 305 enrollees through March 31, Leavitt had nearly 0.7 percent of the exchange’s 42,000 plan selections all to himself — not bad when you realize 1,500 other brokers registered to sell exchange policies.
The news spurred hundreds of phone calls and emails to Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada from across the country: Two Stage 4 cancer patients at the Las Vegas center, after participating in the first human trial of an antibody drug with the unwieldy code name of MPDL 3280A, were now cancer-free.
Measles remains a stubborn adversary, with more than 129 cases so far this year, a federal agency said on Thursday. Most of the U.S. measles cases are linked to unvaccinated travelers from abroad, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.
On Thursday, Nancy Hambrick and her husband, Assemblyman John Hambrick, got good news from her doctor: Tests showed that Nancy was cancer-free after 12 cycles of chemotherapy.
