Some parents are scratching their heads over less restrictive head lice policies that allow children with live bugs in their hair to return to the classroom.
Health
State health officials say they will investigate nurses’ allegations that understaffing at MountainView Hospital has caused patients to die, fall, suffer broken bones and sit in their excrement and urine for lengthy periods of time
Vanessa White went to the same Las Vegas emergency room three times with symptoms ranging from a relentless cough to unexplainable fever and delirium, her husband said Thursday, but she never got tested for tuberculosis, the disease that killed her weeks after giving birth to premature twins.
President Barack Obama said Thursday he’s sorry Americans are losing health insurance plans he repeatedly said they could keep under his signature health care law. But the president stopped short of apologizing for making those promises.
Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade. Now, the Food and Drug Administration will require the food industry to gradually phase out all trans fats.
Las Vegas’ “biggest cheapskate” who wanted to surgically remove a testicle was told on TLC’s “Extreme Cheapskates,” which aired Wednesday, that he could not enter the medical trial because of low testosterone levels.
Disappointing. Difficult. Atrocious. That’s how local insurance brokers describe the first month of open enrollment through the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange.
The more you talk with MountainView Hospital nurses, the more troubled you become.
This decade’s recession may have pummeled Las Vegas and other parts of the nation. But as a result, tourists are coming to Sin City to do more than let off steam by engaging in the usual excesses. They’re coming to sit in the steam and feel better.
If and when you finally get your hands on a new health insurance plan, you might notice something.
Disinfectant, or germicide, must be applied with a cloth to virtually everything, including the mattress, waste receptacles, light switches, call buttons, telephone, wall moldings, dispensers, windowsills and pieces of furniture. Floors are also mopped with an infection-killing cleaner.
Inmate medical costs in Nevada prison have fallen appreciably over the past 12 years because of medical reform measures established at prisons, according to information released Thursday by Brian Connett, the department’s deputy director and public information officer.
Summerlin Hospital Medical Center didn’t take basic precautions this past summer when a woman with tuberculosis visited one of her twins in intensive care, potentially infecting others, according to a state report released Friday.
Bundled against chilly 60-degree temperatures, nurses dressed in scrubs and armed with glow sticks gathered Tuesday evening in front of MountainView Hospital to hold a candlelight vigil over hospital staffing concerns.