What many commuters choking on smog have long suspected has finally been scientifically validated: air pollution causes lung cancer.
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Obamacare has changed the way you shop for insurance. But long before you had to sift through new plans, the law was transforming how local hospitals care for patients.
We adopt a few different postures throughout the day. In a perfect world, those postures would be conducive and transferable to the functional movements the day requires. Sadly, the path of least resistance often wins and posture is the first thing to suffer.
When I met Christine Wunderlin three years ago, her left arm had swelled to about twice the size of her right.
When professional boxer Sharif Bogere aggravated a nagging Achilles injury during a fight in March, it seemed as though recovery would sideline his career indefinitely.
When Danielle Greisen gave birth in July to a daughter at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas, she had no idea another infant there had tuberculosis.
Since a woman who gave birth to twins in a Clark County hospital later died from tuberculosis, 26 people with whom she came in contact have tested positive for the disease. About 200 people had been tested before Monday.
Finally! I am not the only one in my house who makes a mess. My daughter, inheriting my untidy gene, likes to leave her toys all over the house. Just like me, she gets carried away having fun and before long the house is a wreck.
For years, he said, scientists have been studying — basically in relation to brain cancer — the form of energy given off by cellphones known as radiofrequency waves, a type of nonionizing radiation that the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.”
Who would you rather see standing beside your bed when you wake up from surgery? Someone wearing that white coat? Or somebody wearing a Metallica T-shirt?
They were mystery diseases that had stumped doctors for years — adults with strange symptoms and children with neurological problems, mental slowness or muscles too weak to let them stand. Now scientists say they were able to crack a quarter of these cases by decoding the patients’ genes.
Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services on Friday afternoon held an open house at its new Drop-In Center near Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas. Gov. Brian Sandoval and Sen. Joe Hardy, R-Boulder City, attended the event.
Experts in eating disorders are concerned about an Internet-fueled trend in which teenage girls and young women pursue an elusive and possibly dangerous weight-loss goal: to become so slender that their thighs don’t touch even when their feet are together.
When the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange opened Tuesday, Nevada fired its first big salvo in the fight to cover its uninsured.
Hold your nose and don’t spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people’s poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections — a less yucky way to do “fecal transplants.”