Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
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Signs in McCarran International Airport that advertise to tourists the shows they might want to attend in Las Vegas have been joined by a poster from the CDC that warns travelers about a MERS virus they should stay away from.
A Las Vegas law firm that filed a class-action lawsuit against the state’s health insurance exchange and its contractor is looking for faster help for people with serious health ailments.
The Las Vegas Fire Department’s chief on Tuesday disputed a report that accused its paramedics of transporting more patients from wealthier neighborhoods and leaving more inner-city hospital transports to a private company.
Ever so slowly, 58-year-old Lori Wright, who’s on Social Security disability, makes her way down the hallway of Valley Hospital Medical Center. She limps, shuffles, wobbles and drags her left foot.
Fresh statistics on Medicaid enrollments don’t improve the outlook for Hispanic enrollment in health coverage.
In high school I had one of those hand springy things you squeeze to improve your grip. I thought it would build my forearms. My friend had one with a built-in counter so he could track his reps.
It is the leading reason people go to the doctor — and the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, reports it affects 100 million American adults, more than the total affected by heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined.
According to CommonwealthFund.org, Nevada ranks in the bottom five states when it comes to health care. Now, the American Osteopathic Association has approved Nathan Adelson Hospice for a hospice and palliative medicine fellowship program that looks to help remedy that.
Eleven-month-old Daisy Tilton, bless her heart, wobbles around the backyard, staring and laughing at her high-stepping tiny feet the way babies do — happily mystified, it seems, that she no longer has to crawl to get around.
For fitness instructor Hildegard Gigl, exercise is the key to staying young. The workout group at her suburban apartment complex are all 75 and older.
Kellogg Co has agreed to stop using terms such as “All Natural” and “100% Natural” on some of its Kashi and Bear Naked brand product labels and to pay more than $5 million to settle a class-action consumer fraud lawsuit.
William Blair volunteers his time and vehicle to drive seniors to and from medical and other critical appointments through Helping Hands of Vegas Valley. His five years of serivce there earned him a Salute to Senior Service honor from the Home Instead Senior Care network.
Despite weeks of technical upgrades by contractor Xerox, the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange’s Nevada Health Link website has relapsed into a pile of payment and enrollment glitches in the middle of an important special-enrollment period, according to insurance carriers, brokers, consumers and even some exchange board members.
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