It’s a Friday night, and Robert Peraza is making his way through the crowd on the dance floor of Share Nightclub. He’s known as “The Condom Guy” in some circles.
Health
Biodermis, a Henderson skin care products company, scored a prestigious international award recently when its just-patented scar treatment stick called Pro-Sil won recognition at the MyFaceMyBody Awards ceremony in London.
A French contraceptive maker said Tuesday its morning-after pill doesn’t work when taken by women who weigh more than 176 pounds and plans to change its labels to warn patients.
Students at Coronado High School who were tested for tuberculosis Nov. 19 were retested Tuesday after a problem with the original tests.
Confusing “show muscles” with “go muscles” is a frequent mistake in the fitness culture.
This past week, I received a phone call from a man who wanted to know if what he read on the Summerlin Hospital website from its CEO Robert Freymuller was true.
The Bible verse from Philippians frequently comes to the lips of 29-year-old Elizabeth Trujillo when she is alone, when the fear of leaving her three children without a mother grows inside her and nearly causes her heart to break.
About three years ago, the nation’s top public health agency picked its battles. Now, it’s issuing its own report card on reaching those goals: Pretty good but needs improvement.
Roseman University of Health Sciences and the Nevada Cancer Institute Foundation have completed a merger that will reopen the cancer institute building in Las Vegas and could lead to the creation of a medical school at the site by 2017.
Help yourself to some nuts this holiday season: Regular nut eaters were less likely to die of cancer or heart disease — in fact, were less likely to die of any cause — during a 30-year Harvard study.
A $71 million skilled nursing and assisted living center will bring hundreds of jobs to a previously barren patch of downtown Las Vegas, but it’s taking a hefty public subsidy to make it happen.
President Barack Obama, who has portrayed himself as surprised by technical problems with the government’s new health care website, was briefed earlier this year on a consultant’s report that warned of possible widespread site failures, White House officials said Tuesday.
Today’s kids can’t keep up with their parents. An analysis of studies on millions of children around the world finds they don’t run as fast or as far as their parents did when they were young.
It’s easier than ever to get into your neighborhood ER, but that could be somewhat out of sync with federal policy.
Summerlin Hospital Medical Center is being sued by a group of employees, former patients and visitors who say they were exposed to tuberculosis earlier this year.