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Robotic procedure leaves smaller ‘cosmetic footprint’

Forty-nine-year-old aquarist and marine biologist Deborah Canestrelli has a job to do. It involves diving into a 50,000-gallon aquarium at the Forum Shops at Caesars and lavishing tender loving care on rays and sharks — hand-feeding them.

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Learning the proper techniques safest way to roll

The more you know, the better you can perform your job. Legal and medical professionals often are required to take continuing education courses to stay up-to-date on research and findings.

‘Chocolate pill’ study looks at cocoa health benefits

It won’t be nearly as much fun as eating candy bars, but a big study is being launched to see if pills containing the nutrients in dark chocolate can help prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Vickers latest celebrity activist

It had been a staple of medical journals and long covered in the health pages of newspapers: If a woman has either a defective BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, prophylactic surgery can decrease the average 65 percent risk of developing breast cancer to about 5 percent.

Half of those with glaucoma don’t know they have it

Patti Bailey has vivid memories of last summer’s July Fourth weekend. While most of America was warming up the backyard barbecue, Bailey was having a health crisis.

Nevada may have to pay for health exchange errors

Whether they are frightened of going without medical care, angry about not receiving their insurance cards or trying to prove a point, Nevadans increasingly say they are weighing legal action over the rollout of Nevada Health Link, the state exchange through which they can buy coverage to comply with the federal Affordable Care Act.

Build shoulders by pulling, lifting with proper form

Shoulder pain can be the force that halts your physical activity and curtails your goals. It may start small and slowly build. Trauma also can be a source of shoulder pain.

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