Health
By KIMBERLEY MCGEE
A lawyer accused Dr. Dipak Desai of exaggerating his ill health to duck legal problems long before prosecutors raised the issue last month in his criminal case.
ATLANTA — Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind. The study, released Monday, suggests that HIV is epidemic in certain poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods.
No doubt about it, America’s kids are fat. In Southern Nevada, the problem of childhood obesity is even more serious, because our kids are even fatter than their counterparts across the country.
Dallas Carothers is back working as a salesman at Artistic Iron Works after a life-threatening three-month battle with the H1N1 flu virus. But he is pushing hardest for people to get vaccinated for H1N1. “I’d hate to see anyone go through what I’ve been through,” he said.
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