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Judge’s ruling challenges U.S. transplant system

It’s a life or death matter: Who gets the next scarce donated organ? In an unprecedented challenge to the nation’s transplant system, a federal judge has allowed one dying child – and a day later another – to essentially jump the line in rulings that could have ramifications for thousands of people awaiting new organs.

Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital retains accreditation

Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas will remain accredited after months of being in the national spotlight for allegations of patient dumping.

Official witnessed unsafe procedures at endoscopy clinic

A physician with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta testified Wednesday that she saw a nurse anesthetist charged in the hepatitis C outbreak improperly reuse a syringe months after the 2007 outbreak.

Sunscreen slows skin aging, if used often enough

If worry about skin cancer doesn’t make you slather on sunscreen, maybe vanity will: New research provides some of the strongest evidence to date that near-daily sunscreen use can slow the aging of your skin.

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Wildfires prompt air quality advisory

A wildfire in Lovell Canyon near Mount Charleston is adding to the haze over Las Vegas caused by Southern California wildfires.

CrossFit Mountain’s Edge takes different angles on fitness

Fitness is universal. Good principles and proper techniques are evident in talented trainers across the Las Vegas Valley. Different coaches have different ways of explaining and illustrating proper technique, but the underlying principles are virtually the same.

Insurers refuse, patients lose

When insurance companies and medical providers have one of their frequent wars over money, what too often happens is that you and me –– so often referred to as either a cherished policyholder or a cherished patient –– end up as collateral damage.

Nutrition gurus sometimes let the cravings win

They point us in the direction of the produce section, can rattle off calorie counts like baseball stats and remind us that we are what we eat — which means some of us are more chocolate cake doughnut than fruit smoothie.

Vinegar cancer test saves lives, India study finds

A simple vinegar test slashed cervical cancer death rates by one-third in a remarkable study of 150,000 women in the slums of India, where the disease is the top cancer killer of women.

Cancer survivor lands scholarship to UCLA

What’s more nauseating than doing homework in high school? Doing homework while undergoing chemotherapy in high school.

Are nutritional labels coming on alcoholic drinks?

Alcoholic beverages soon could have nutritional labels like those on food packaging, but only if the producers want to put them there.

Hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen organic berry blend

A multistate outbreak of Hepatitis A apparently associated with a frozen organic berry blend made in Oregon has infected at least one Nevada resident with the disease, according to officials with the Southern Nevada Health District.

Trustees say Medicare exhausted in 2026

The government says Medicare’s giant hospital trust will not be exhausted until 2026, while the date that Social Security will exhaust its trust fund is unchanged at 2033.

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