A surge of eleventh-hour enrollments has improved the outlook for President Barack Obama’s health care law, with more people signing up overall and a much-needed spark of interest among young adults.
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After consuming legalized marijuana, two Coloradans are dead and the effects of the recreational drug are questioned.
More than 100 University Medical Center employees, including registered and practical nurses, pharmacy technicians, and lab assistants, were laid off Friday as hospital administrators announced the closing of four care centers and an outpatient pharmacy.
Being a college athlete isn’t an easy feat, but when you are dangerously allergic to your own sweat, it can become even more challenging.
Health-related news and events from across the Las Vegas Valley.
An audit of the state’s health insurance exchange contractor gave mostly failing grades. The report, given Thursday to the board of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, also recommended penalties against contractor Xerox for its poor performance in building Nevada Health Link.
The outpatient therapy center at Centennial Hills Hospital opened in January with the goal of helping its patients get back to their normal lives and improve their overall health.
Miley Cyrus is in the hospital and unable to perform her “Bangerz” concert in Kansas City, Mo., as planned. A spokeswoman for the singer says the 21-year-old canceled her performance Tuesday after she was hospitalized for a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics.
Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar owners John and Tabitha Simmons announced Tuesday that they’re closing their Henderson location at 11261 S. Eastern Ave. The Henderson restaurant was recently issued 38 demerits, and a C grade, following a March 31 inspection by the Southern Nevada Health District.
I like training sports athletes. It’s fun to create a program for people with sport-specific performance as their goal. It’s a diversion from my usual efforts to make a male athlete “buff” or a female athlete “toned.”
Patients and impatience —often they go together like unflattering hospital gowns and exposed derrieres.
Nevada Health Link’s open enrollment ended March 31, but the stream of questions into our email inbox continues unabated.
In many ways, Cody Lewis represents the changing face of heroin in America. He is in his 20s, lives in the suburbs and graduated to heroin after years of getting high with other drugs. “My whole existence,” he says, “was just finding ways to get high.”
Two new studies describe the latest achievements in growing body parts in a lab and transplanting them into people, this time with nostrils and vaginas.
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