Everybody can exhale now. If Nevada Health Link officials, insurance brokers and consumers “went into open enrollment holding their collective breath,” then today, there are sighs of relief that the state’s insurance marketplace works, said its Executive Director Bruce Gilbert.
We sing lullabies to babies. We read to them, bathe them, dim the lights and turn down the noise. But as we get older, our sleep hygiene may become a downright mess.
Summerlin Hospital’s cardiac rehabilitation program has reached its one-year milestone. The program is for people who have experienced a recent cardiac event (most are heart attack patients) and emphasizes the three “E” components: exercise, education and encouragement.
While the proposal does not recommend every male be circumcised, it says the procedure can prevent penile cancer and the transmission of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases.
Fiber can be found in such foods as fruits, vegetables, beans and bran cereals, and it aids digestion and elimination by keeping food moving through the digestive system.
Henderson peripheral nerve surgeon among small group that specialize in eliminating chronic pain by creating space for the nerves to function properly.
Getting too little sleep is linked to poor health, but short naps might partly offset that effect, a small study suggests.
Doctors at a San Francisco hospital on Friday completed kidney transplant surgeries in a rare organ-transplant chain from living donors that resulted in healthy kidneys going to six sick people.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
As of Feb. 11, the Southern Nevada Health District had identified four cases of measles, the first confirmed in Clark County since 2011.
Adults only get flu twice a decade on average, scientists have found, suggesting that most of the coughs and colds that keep millions of people off work every year are down to other bugs.
This year’s highly publicized measles outbreaks are no longer front page news, but they could have a lasting public health legacy. Lawmakers in 10 states are promoting legislation that would make vaccination exemptions harder to obtain.
Sleep Awareness Week takes place from March 2nd to March 8th and functions to raise awareness about the importance of sleep.
The first person infected with Ebola in the United States, nurse Nina Pham, sued a Texas hospital on Monday, saying it did not do enough to prevent her from contracting the deadly virus and invaded her privacy after she was diagnosed with it.
While both celiac disease and hypothyroidism are not curable, they are manageable with the proper diet.
