A top California lawmaker sent a letter to federal health authorities suggesting U.S. officials investigate whether Nevada dumped mentally ill patients on the Golden State, the legislator’s office confirmed Tuesday.
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St. Patrick’s Day is March 17 and is celebrated by many with shamrocks, corned beef, cabbage, a goofy little leprechaun and the color green.
Accused of patient dumping, Nevada health officials on Monday said they’re investigating what led Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services to release a 48-year-old mentally ill man from a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital and put him on a Greyhound to Sacramento, Calif.
The Hollywood treatment of a childhood bout with leukemia, one that makes your tears flow in the movie theater or living room, often involves a seriously ill boy or girl whose wise physician uses all the therapies at his command to bring the youngster back to cheerful good health.
In the world of 53-year-old David Heaps, it makes sense to wear tennis shoes to bed.
Put aside that isolation routine for one day and try working all your muscles at once.
Had he seen a photograph of Dr. Greg Edwards beforehand, Christopher Chase Cripps admits he probably wouldn’t have shown up at the African-American dentist’s office in Las Vegas for emergency treatment of toothaches.
Rule No. 1 for running up 1,455 stairs — that’s 108 flights — as fast as humanly possible: Respect the stairs. Rule No. 2: Pace yourself.
Cleveland Clinic, recognized as having the nation’s top heart and urologic programs and well-known to Southern Nevadans and Alzheimer’s disease researchers for its operation of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, will start offering urology services in Las Vegas in mid-April.
Today, Giuseppe Pizzorno is a research professor with the Desert Research Institute. But the pharmacologist with a background in researching anti-cancer molecules came to Nevada in 2002 with the hopes of building a world-class cancer treatment and research facility at the Nevada Cancer Institute. When the cancer institute’s troubles came to a head in recent years, there were some, including Pizzorno, who didn’t want to consider the worst possible scenario — a complete closure of the site and hard-fought research dollars leaving the state. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what did happen.
You know you love your stability ball when it becomes a functional part of your living room decor. You may even have one to replace your computer chair. My 6-month-old likes it better than the rocking chair for falling asleep.
To be or not to be smitten? To try to ensure the man of her dreams went gaga over her so he’d never even ask that question on Valentine’s Day or any other day, a woman in Shakespeare’s England used what was then considered the best aphrodisiac –– the aroma of her armpit.
Dr. Farolyn McSweeney, the president of the Nevada State Board of Oriental Medicine, likes to tell people “you can never be too careful” when it comes to the possible spread of infections.