With three months left in 2013, the Southern Nevada Health District reports there have already been 19 more cases of potentially fatal whooping cough, or pertussis, in Southern Nevada than the 83 experienced all of last year.
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Ankles seem like an insignificant joint when compared to the power and strength of the hip or shoulder. Believe me, they do have their tasks and they can affect your performance in a major way.
Smiling, 17-year-old Samantha McClean walks down the stairs of her Henderson home with examples of her artwork under her arm. As she hurriedly makes her way to the living room, there is nothing about her entrance that suggests anything more or less than normalcy.
About once a month, Las Vegas hatha yoga instructor Heather Bruton gives her body what she calls a “yoga cleanse,” an ancient practice of drinking lukewarm water and a little bit of sea salt to clear out the digestive system.
Obese people are less likely to survive cancer, and one reason may be a surprising inequality: The overweight are undertreated.
University Medical Center might end up getting rid of its hyperbaric chamber, which the public hospital says is a money-losing venture.
Obese people are less likely to survive cancer, and one reason may be a surprising inequality: The overweight are undertreated. Doctors often short them on chemotherapy by not basing the dose on size, as they should.
Almost 1 in 10 U.S. high school seniors have engaged in recent extreme binge drinking — downing at least 10 drinks — at a rate that barely budged over six years, according to a report.
Ten years earlier, her Type 1 diabetes had already cost her the vision in one eye.
At the party celebrating her eighth birthday, Emily Bartko and a classmate from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School, Sidney Meriwether, danced along with performers on the big-screen TV.
Michelle Obama has pushed Americans to eat healthier and to exercise more. Now she says we should “drink up” too. As in plain water. And as in more of it.
Scientists have identified a gene on the extra chromosome causing Down syndrome that may be responsible for the early aging and cognitive defects in people with the condition, a finding that could lead to new treatments.
The Affordable Care Act may put your health insurance network on a diet.
Baby boomers are entering the years when they’re most prone to tumors, and doctors are having a hard time keeping up with complex new treatments, government advisers reported Tuesday. The combination poses a serious problem.
If you’ve read even this far, congratulations. You didn’t abandon today’s column just because the exercises appeared too complex in the pictures. Many advanced exercises have a number of smaller technique gems built into them.
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