The more you watch the 62-year-old Michelle Ennist work in maternal child services at University Medical Center, the more you realize why the unit’s director, Lisa Pacheco, says that with the nurse’s upcoming retirement, the hospital is losing “a solid part of the foundation of the unit.”
Sure your liver or kidney could save someone’s life. But would you donate your hands, or your face? Signing up to become an organ donor may get more complicated than just checking a box on your driver’s license.
China sent health experts to investigate a drug maker Tuesday to see if several recent deaths of babies were related to a vaccine they received in a government immunization program.
Women everywhere worry about how they look — you don’t have to be plus-sized to have body issues.
Almost 60 people linked to a fatal case of tuberculosis have tested positive for the disease since this past summer, according to a Southern Nevada Health District report made public today.
Nevadans were expected to meet a Monday deadline to sign up for federally mandated health insurance, even as the deadline slipped to Tuesday elsewhere in the U.S.
The family of a Northern California girl on life support after being declared brain dead was expected to appear with hospital officials in court Monday to announce the name of the independent physician it has chosen to provide a second opinion on the girl’s condition.
Barbells are a great tool for exercising. You can use them for squatting, dead lifting and pressing. Did you know that you can also use them as a mobility tool?
It happened to Benjamin Martin shortly after he woke up on a winter morning in 2010 — he felt as though drums were pounding in his chest, as though thunder was rumbling there.
You watch Dr. Dale Carrison hustling around the University Medical Center emergency room in his black-and-red high-top Nikes, a cellphone often at his ear, and it’s easy to forget he was born before even half of Americans had telephones, when TV had yet to become a commercial success.
Lisa Browder opens the top drawer of one of her file cabinets. A bag of dog treats almost jumps out of the drawer. Kimber, the visiting German shepherd lying quietly beside owner Jan Hanson, knows good things are about to happen.
A new medical school in Las Vegas would start with a charter class of 60 students in fall 2017, Renee Coffman, president of Roseman University of Health Sciences, said Wednesday. The freshman class could double within six years.
Former U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley is taking on a new job as CEO and senior provost of the Touro College and University System in Nevada and California.
The Henderson City Council, sitting as the Redevelopment Agency, unanimously approved owner participation agreements Tuesday with Valley Health System LLC and the developer of Union Village.
