Henderson resident Valerie Sweet has been living with multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disorder, for more than a decade. Even though she has her struggles, she is determined to push through and have a normal life. She plans to participate in the Walk MS at 8:30 a.m. April 26 at Sunset Park, 2601 E. Sunset Road.
A Las Vegas man who had trouble getting covered through the state exchange’s Nevada Health Link website is a co-plaintiff in the first class-action lawsuit filed over the troubled insurance marketplace. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court of Nevada on Tuesday afternoon against the state of Nevada, Xerox and the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, which runs Nevada Health Link.
Nevadans flocked to the state’s online health insurance exchange ahead of a midnight Monday enrollment deadline to at least begin the signup process. At midday, exchange officials said as many as 5,700 individual users were accessing the website at one time.
A flood of last-minute applicants rushed to sign up for health insurance on Monday, deadline day for President Barack Obama’s health care law, with more than 100,000 people at a time using the fragile system. After early stumbles, the website is up and running again.
It’s happening increasingly in American life — men acting as caregivers.
Pistol squats are one of those exercises that can be intimidating at first. But with today’s modifications you can ease your way into them.
At first, Buckley thought she heard wrong, wondering why this was a time to worry about smoothing out frown lines.
Open enrollment ends Monday, but that hasn’t stanched the flow of questions about the Affordable Care Act.
A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart’s main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead.
A study of more than 3.5 million Americans finds that married people are less likely than singles, divorced or widowed folks to suffer any type of heart or blood vessel problem.
The health district board approved a $61 million budget for 2015 on Thursday. This includes budget cuts of up to $6 million, which could equate to 50 to 60 layoffs, board Vice Chair and Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers said.
The board of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange met Thursday for the final time before Monday’s cutoff for consumers to enroll in coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Their agenda focused on ways to finish sign-ups and how to improve the system.
Larry Basich’s health insurance nightmare has ended. Insurer Health Plan of Nevada said this morning that it has agreed to cover Basich retroactively to Jan. 1, concluding a four-month saga during which he ran up more than $400,000 in uncovered medical bills.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers are close to striking plea agreements for imprisoned Dr. Dipak Desai and his former clinic manager, Tonya Rushing, in the federal health care fraud case stemming from the Las Vegas Valley hepatitis C outbreak, the attorneys said Wednesday.
He hadn’t even come into the world yet in the ’70s when the first test tube baby was born, when CAT scans were invented.
