“How did it feel?” I asked one of my athletes last week as I coached him during a lift.
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Marina Alvarez holds her 14-month-old son Esteban and kisses the chunky toddler on the cheek as she talks with her neighbor Thomas Locke in the front yard of her northeast Las Vegas home.
With more than 20 comfy examination rooms and a pharmacy stocked with both prescription and over-the-counter medications, UNLV’s Student Health Center is the nicest place on campus that students never want to visit.
If we don’t skip it, many of us are in just underwear when we eat it, often incapable of much more than grunts and groans, with breath that not even a mother can love.
Companies vying for a stake in the fast-growing electronic cigarette business are reviving the decades-old marketing tactics the tobacco industry used to hook generations of Americans on regular smokes.
HealthCare Partners Nevada tells a quintessential Silver State growth story. The doctors’ practice opened shortly after the dawn of the modern-day megaresort era, and lassoed a new business model to become one of the state’s biggest practices.
After more than a six-year delay, the Food and Drug Administration has set a new standard for labels that will make shopping easier for consumers on gluten-restricted diets.
A Las Vegas man who suffered from a rare medical condition that caused his scrotum to swell to over 130 pounds will appear in a cable televison documentary later this month.
Bronnie Ware was a nurse working in palliative care. She took care of people with multiple illnesses, some curable, others not. She also watched over sick people in the last days of their lives.
The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, its services for multiple sclerosis strained by a heavy patient load, has expanded its MS staff. That means fewer patients will end up in hospital emergency rooms for expensive treatment.
Health officials say breast-feeding rates continue to inch up: Now more than 3 in 4 mothers try to breast-feed their newborns.
An appeals court ruled Tuesday that New York City’s Board of Health exceeded its legal authority and acted unconstitutionally when it tried to put a size limit on soft drinks served in city restaurants.
Some gyms have a hard time keeping rubber resistance bands stocked. They are small, portable and versatile, making them easy to stuff in a gym bag and take out the front door. For this reason, gyms may require you to check out bands from the trainers or the front desk.
Dr. Robert Atkins has left his mark on several generations, including some to come. The founder of the Atkins Diet, and one of Time’s 2002 Persons of the Year, famously claimed that carbohydrates, not fats, are the weight-loss enemy. Even after his death 10 years ago, millions of Americans are still “counting carbs,” swearing they will reduce them someday.