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Leftover medication can pose several hazards

The label didn’t say “Please finish all this medication,” and you didn’t, so now you have a few pills left, and wonder about the best way to get rid of them. To flush or not to flush? To trash or not to trash? Neither, if you care about the safety of the water supply and the problem of drug abuse.

Las Vegas paramedic rides shotgun as lives start, fade away

“You can never give up on anybody,” says paramedic John Osborn. “You never know who’s going to make it.”
He’ll never forget one who did –a woman who was ejected from her car yet survived when it rolled over her.
Osborn found her walking around in shock. There was a perfect imprint of her body in a farmer’s freshly plowed pasture.

No stretching the truth: These devices can really help

I’m often curious about how the concept of a long rubber tube with a handle at each end made it into the gym, but I am glad it’s here to stay. Stretchy bands are fun to work with and provide constant resistance without relying on gravity.

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Results of probe in baby’s death sent to District Attorney

The results of a police investigation into how catheters came apart killing one child and severely injuring another in the Sunrise Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit have been sent to the Clark County District Attorney’s office.

Former Sunrise nurse wins neonatal unit case

A federal arbitrator has ruled that a Sunrise Children’s Hospital nurse fired in connection with a 2010 baby death in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit should be reinstated with back pay, a spokesman for the nurse’s union said Thursday.

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