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Small businesses get tax credit for health coverage

Local dentist Darren Loveland is getting paid to offer health insurance to his employees. And Loveland’s not alone: Thousands of local small businesses could benefit from a federal provision offering tax credits on a significant chunk of health-coverage costs.

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Study challenges need for lymph node removal in cancer patients

When the news broke about a study that found many women with early breast cancer need not have all their underarm lymph nodes removed — even if they contain cancer cells — Christine Wunderlin was both happy and disappointed.

Thoughts of suicide plague those on verge of losing all

Hard hit by the recession, unemployed Nevadans are turning despondent, desperate, even suicidal. Calls from the suicidal jobless have increased in recent months, says Debbie Gant-Reed, hot-line coordinator for the Crisis Call Center in Reno. The center serves as Nevada’s suicide hot line.

Desai ordered to mental facility; March trial postponed

District Judge Jackie Glass on Tuesday ordered Dr. Dipak Desai, the central figure in the 2007 Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak, to surrender March 17 to be taken to a state mental facility for further evaluation.

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