Two Nevada state employees were fired Monday, and three others will receive lesser discipline, in the investigation of alleged cross-border dumping of mental patients, state officials announced Monday.
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Wesley Warren Jr., the 48-year-old Las Vegas man whose emotional and physical struggles with a 132-pound scrotum drew international attention, has undergone successful surgery to remove the mass, according to the California surgeon who led the team that performed the nearly 13-hour procedure.
If the smile on Don Laughlin’s face became any broader you suspect he’d have to make an emergency landing at a nearby hospital to receive treatment for a dislocated temporomandibular joint.
It’s OK to admit it. You’re afraid of the stability ball. More so of falling off the ball. I’ve seen it before. It is a real concern for new gymgoers.
When Irene C. Smith found out that her 14-year-old son had Type 1 diabetes, she vowed not to sit around and feel sorry for herself. When problems arose at her son’s school in New Jersey, she realized the disease itself was only the beginning of the struggle.
Some suffer from severe psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has given Nevada 10 days to correct “serious deficiencies” in its mental health discharge policies or face a loss of federal funding.
We’re in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready. A new poll examined how people 40 and over are preparing for this difficult and often pricey reality of aging, and found two-thirds say they’ve done little to no planning.
A Las Vegas physician has had her license suspended by the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners for allowing an employee to practice medicine without a license.
The city attorney for San Francisco announced Monday that his office will investigate allegations of mental health patient dumping by Nevada, which already is under federal review for its discharge practices.
CARSON CITY — About 9 percent of Nevadan’s population will be eligible for discount health insurance rates when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act goes into effect in 2014, a recently released study shows.
CHICAGO — Don’t take the cinnamon challenge. That’s the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.
Done right, no problem. But do them wrong, and functional movements — squats and dead lifts, for example — can be the reasons for injury.
The pounding on a chisel to remove bone spurs, the hammering of pins to secure bone, the high-pitched whine of a drill and electric saw alternately cutting away and boring into the knee joint: The sounds of the operating room, which moments ago were beeping monitors as Dr. Michael Crovetti sliced open Earl Kimberly’s right knee with a scalpel, have become those of a woodshop.
Soon after the Boston Marathon bombings, well before the funerals were arranged, the amputations completed and medications for post-traumatic stress disorder dispensed, the questions began.
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