A Las Vegas physician has had her license suspended by the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners for allowing an employee to practice medicine without a license.
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The city attorney for San Francisco announced Monday that his office will investigate allegations of mental health patient dumping by Nevada, which already is under federal review for its discharge practices.
CARSON CITY — About 9 percent of Nevadan’s population will be eligible for discount health insurance rates when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act goes into effect in 2014, a recently released study shows.
CHICAGO — Don’t take the cinnamon challenge. That’s the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers.
Done right, no problem. But do them wrong, and functional movements — squats and dead lifts, for example — can be the reasons for injury.
The pounding on a chisel to remove bone spurs, the hammering of pins to secure bone, the high-pitched whine of a drill and electric saw alternately cutting away and boring into the knee joint: The sounds of the operating room, which moments ago were beeping monitors as Dr. Michael Crovetti sliced open Earl Kimberly’s right knee with a scalpel, have become those of a woodshop.
Soon after the Boston Marathon bombings, well before the funerals were arranged, the amputations completed and medications for post-traumatic stress disorder dispensed, the questions began.
The patient is still in critical care, but his condition is stabilizing.
Every so often in a trial where a jury has found that a company’s behavior has put people in harm’s way, you can find exchanges between an attorney and a key witness that seem to capture that company’s embarrassment and shame.
Nevada’s largest mental health facility isn’t a treatment center at all.
Jodie Goldberg, shelter operations manager at Catholic Charities in Las Vegas, greets homeless diners by name.
Touro University senior provost and CEO Michael Harter, who helped found the school in 2004, recently announced his impending retirement.
Yes, Laura really can do pistol squats. After the pistol squat column (March 18), gym members wanted to see if she could really do them. Even after teaching two group classes back-to-back, she demonstrated single-leg squats to prove the point.
ameron Myers, a 4-year-old charmer with curly brown hair, hops onto a rectangular mat hanging from the ceiling, lies down and asks Deborah Meinberg for a hand.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has transported more than 1,500 mentally ill patients to cities across the nation by Greyhound bus over the past five years, according to a published story.