Touro University senior provost and CEO Michael Harter, who helped found the school in 2004, recently announced his impending retirement.
Health
Yes, Laura really can do pistol squats. After the pistol squat column (March 18), gym members wanted to see if she could really do them. Even after teaching two group classes back-to-back, she demonstrated single-leg squats to prove the point.
ameron Myers, a 4-year-old charmer with curly brown hair, hops onto a rectangular mat hanging from the ceiling, lies down and asks Deborah Meinberg for a hand.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has transported more than 1,500 mentally ill patients to cities across the nation by Greyhound bus over the past five years, according to a published story.
According to a published story, Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has transported over 1,500 mentally ill patients to cities across the nation by Greyhound bus over the last five years.
Mental health became a focus of the Nevada Legislature in a very personal way this session because of expelled Assemblyman Steven Brooks’ public difficulties.
When James began hearing voices, the unseen others would simply call his name. Then they began to feed his fears. James, now 19, thought people were following him to his Las Vegas high school. To avoid detection, he began leaving his house as early as 5:30 a.m.
The Review-Journal takes an in-depth look at Nevada’s broken system for helping those who have a mental illness and a new approach that could help ease the crisis.
Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services filed a corrective action plan Thursday to prevent future cases of patient dumping, two months after putting a mentally ill homeless man on a bus to Sacramento, Calif., although he knew no one in the city and had no one designated to help him.
The April 1 letter to tens of thousands of Southern Nevadans covered by Cigna health insurance did not contain good news: “Please be aware that effective April 30, 2013, University Medical Center … will no longer be a participating hospital in our network.”
Patsy Quinn knows what the agitation that so often accompanies Alzheimer’s disease can mean.
There was a time when Marla, a local mother of a 10-year-old boy with mental illness, kept handmade laminated cards with her whenever she took the child out of the house. “My son is bipolar,” they read, “please just walk away.”
Chances are better than good that you or someone in your family has already suffered from it. It really doesn’t surprise you all that much when it happens –– cramps, diarrhea, vomiting.
One of my favorite sights at the gym is parents teaching their children the importance of fitness. Many times it is a father teaching a son, or mother working out with her daughter. Seeing the tandem warm-ups and subsequent lifting is a thing of beauty to me.
While some cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients –– an action clinic administrators blame on sequester budget cuts –– that disruption in care is not under way in Las Vegas.
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