Have you ever driven a car with the emergency brake on? How about trying to get a tan wearing a coat? Absorb the information in a textbook by osmosis? Exercising with tight muscles can be just as frustrating.
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Although robust by one measure, a thorough examination of the Las Vegas hospital industry’s financial health indicates that it is not ready for discharge, even after a lengthy convalescence.
Just as they have for years, Las Vegas-area specialty hospitals continued to generate operating profits in 2012, even though their collective margins declined on higher revenues over 2011.
CARSON CITY — While state senators visited a medical marijuana dispensary in Arizona on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief in the Nevada Supreme Court saying state law provides “no practical way” for residents to acquire medical marijuana.
Despite health authorities’ warnings of the dangers of raw milk, a dozen residents asked Assembly Health and Human Services Committee members Friday to allow the legal sale of the product in Nevada.
Omar Lazo says he’ll never quite sort out the experience. He relives it in his dreams time and time again, but always through a broken lens.
It was one of those early morning phone calls from out of state.
When you’re young, you feel invincible. You have speed, strength, power and quick recovery. Knowing then what I know now, I could have avoided some gym pitfalls that cost me time.
Nevada health officials acknowledged Thursday that proper discharge policies weren’t followed in the case of a mentally ill man who was put on a bus to Sacramento, Calif., after his release from a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital.
A new 33,000-square-foot Advanced Health Care Corp. skilled nursing facility is scheduled to bring more than 90 jobs to the area in early 2014. Nearby, CareMeridian Las Vegas has purchased and remodeled an 11,500-square-foot facility for post-acute care services.
NEW YORK — A judge struck down New York City’s ban on big sugary drinks Monday just hours before it was supposed to take effect, ruling that the first-in-the-nation measure arbitrarily applies to only some sweet beverages and some places that sell them.
It’s a proven lifesaver — the American Cancer Society estimates 65 percent of deaths from colorectal cancer could be avoided if everyone older than 50 had screening tests every 10 years –– yet only about half of Americans have the procedures.
Depression. Loss of interest in sex. An inability to build muscle or lose weight. A general sense of lethargy.
Some gyms don’t have large barbells. I know, it’s a shocker. So how are you going to work on your dead lifts without a long bar loaded down with plates?
Patients are against it. So are doctors and drug manufacturers and the chamber of commerce.