Downsize Fitness recently opened its first Las Vegas location at 321 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 120, to help those with 50 pounds or more to lose meet their weight-loss goals.
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A report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says carpal tunnel syndrome is one of the top two disabling diseases or illnesses in private industry. Endoscopic surgery has become more common way of treating the problem.
This will be the first Mother’s Day without my first health care provider. Alzheimer’s took her out in January.
The patient-provider relationship was always excellent: Mom always found a way to give her patients, or rather her children, the attention they deserved.
You need to be aware of a few dangers in the gym. One is getting stuck under heavy weights you can’t lift. Another is using sloppy form in an exercise and then getting hurt. The most harmful is sloughing off.
These dangers can be avoided by having a workout partner.
A skilled nursing center with the trappings of an urban resort could be the next major addition to Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas.
A major health care organization with global aspirations could be moving into a low-income Las Vegas neighborhood, but first it’s going to have to overcome criticism from the local medical community.
Hospice volunteers usually expect to lose patients within six months. Betsy Burnett, a veteran volunteer, was used to this. Her current patient, Elizabeth “Betty” Twohey, who is 104, did not follow the trend. She has been in hospice care for five years.
Las Vegas surgeon Kevin Petersen often hears that good hard-working people fall through the government’s health care safety net. That is why he continues Helping Hands Surgical Care, a nonprofit that has a half-dozen doctors performing surgeries at no cost to the uninsured.
Every time I hear sports talk show host Paul Howard selling LASIK eye surgery – it only took him a few painless minutes to acquire 20-15 vision – I think of a woman I wrote about in Texas who lost her sight from a laser procedure. Her emotional appeal to me to let people know that such surgery is not without risk has stayed with me.