Health
The holiday season has snuck up again without warning. The air is cooler, the nights are longer and Christmas carols have replaced your favorite tunes as the background score to your daily activities.
Kimberly Cardoza, 47, loves when strangers confuse her and her daughter for sisters. Or when her son is mistaken for her boyfriend. What she doesn’t love are needles or the thought of injecting toxins into her face.
The Puppy Up! Walk is planned for Nov. 3 at Bruce Trent Park to benefit the 2 Million Dogs Foundation, which is helping fund canine cancer research and its link to human cancer.
With the dawn of a new school year, Henderson holds at least one pleasant surprise in store for many parents throughout the valley. It’s the Dr. Joel & Carol Bower School-Based Health Center, a free children’s clinic at Basic High School. The center is a lifesaver for parents who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford or have easy access to critical services that keep their kids, ages 4 to 19, in school. Among those services are required pre-entry school immunizations, asthma management, sports physicals and primary care. Patients can come from anywhere in Las Vegas – and sometimes do.
Tara Pike wants to divert some plastic bottles from the local landfill. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ sustainability coordinator estimates that only about one in four plastic water bottles makes it into the recycling bin.