Keeping your business afloat in a tough economy is one thing. Keeping your business afloat in a tough economy while finding time to volunteer at an animal shelter, compete in triathlons, help a child through a kidney transplant or battle cancer? That’s another level of achievement altogether.
To: Sens. Dean Heller, R-Nev., Harry Reid, D-Nev., Reps. Dina Titus and Steven Horsford, both D-Nev., and Reps. Joe Heck and Mark Amodei, both R-Nev.
Cashel Gardner and his sister Allie have spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic condition that has robbed them of their ability to use their own muscles.
Sunday will be a different sort of Mother’s Day for Stacey Escalante. Not bad-different. Just different-different.
What Ron LaGrande had planned –– a 10-mile ride on his $8,500 Trek Madone racing bike to get some exercise –– did not include seeing winged people flying or being forced to learn how to fly with them in order to earn a thirst-quenching red soda.
Hours after a new report was released that more than doubled the number of people who reported food poisoning symptoms from his Firefly restaurant near the Strip, owner John Simmons visited another of his tapas eateries and tried to make sense of the fact that his dream come true turned into a nightmare for at least 200 of his customers.
If you show up at Valley Hospital experiencing heart failure and shock with major complications, the charge for treatment is $109,869.45, nearly 2.5 times the treatment charge at University Medical Center, which is just a few steps away.
A diabetic, mentally ill patient was bused to Oklahoma from the Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in February without medication or the equipment needed to check blood sugar levels during the trip.
WASHINGTON — For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment, even within the same city.
Sean Willingham figures he’s racked up more than a half-dozen significant injuries during his bull riding career.
Public health officials in Nevada and California are searching for a man who may have been exposed to rabies during an April 30 visit to Mojave National Preserve, 90 miles southwest of Las Vegas.
WASHINGTON — Insurance enrollments mandated by the massive health care overhaul are scheduled to start in five months but there are growing doubts on Capitol Hill that the government will be ready.
As I left Good Night Pediatrics in Henderson –– an all-night urgent care for kids at 2651 Green Valley Parkway –– I took a trip down memory lane, remembering late nights 30 years ago with my own children when they were little and hurting.
I am a fan of the standard Olympic bar for lifting weights. Gyms wouldn’t be the same without them. Don’t get me wrong, machines are swell. But I prefer the feel of an old-fashioned barbell. The cold steel coated in nickel with a knurled finish is like a 45-pound vacation from the world. It brings out my inner caveman, grunts and all.
Allegations of patient dumping at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital gained the attention of federal and independent agencies that sent investigators to the Las Vegas facility Thursday and Friday.
