The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board today will consider extending the deadline to enroll in plans through its Nevada Health Link website.
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A dying 7-year-old boy who is suffering from a viral infection could receive an unapproved medical treatment as early as Wednesday after a drugmaker struck a deal with U.S. regulators to provide the medicine.
This flu season has seen 22 deaths in Clark County, an increase over the eight recorded this time last year.
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it approved a nerve-stimulating headband as the first medical device to prevent migraine headaches. Agency officials said the device provides a new option for patients who cannot tolerate migraine medications.
Six years ago, as a result of a hepatitis outbreak at his clinics that caused more than 50,000 people to get tested for hepatitis and HIV, Dr. Dipak Desai was forced to give up his medical license.
Douglas Oliverius recently threw a surprise party in honor of his wife Janice’s 57th birthday. Imagining the celebration would come might have surprised both of them six years ago. In March 2008, Janice was diagnosed with stage 3B breast cancer.
Just try sugar-coating this: The World Health Organization says your daily sugar intake should be just 5 percent of your total calories — half of what the agency previously recommended, according to new draft guidelines published Wednesday.
Just a few days after a Gallup Well-Being poll stated Nevada as the Top 3 least obese state in the country, a new poll shows Nevadans as not frequent exercisers or produce eaters in 2013.
A new Gallup Well-Being poll released on Tuesday shows Nevada among the Top 3 states with the lowest obesity rates with an average of 21.1 percent obesity.
A Swedish doctor says four women who received transplanted wombs have had embryos transferred into them in an attempt to get pregnant. He would not say on Monday whether any of the women had succeeded.
A man named Carl Chamberlain left me an unsettling voice mail last week.
The Super Bowl marks the end of football season for fans and athletes alike. But that doesn’t mean you can’t train for next season, as an energetic fan or an up-and-coming player.
Snack and soda makers that often are blamed for fueling the nation’s obesity rates also play a role in educating the dietitians who advise Americans on healthy eating.
The 64-year-old woman sits in her plush Turnberry Towers condominium just off the Strip and talks about what it was like to be a prisoner in her home.
It is a Saturday morning at Safe Faith United as Rebeca Ferreira, the director of the nonprofit center on East Sahara Avenue that helps victims of domestic abuse find everything from counseling to money for utility bills, remembers her own introduction to domestic violence more than 25 years ago.
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