Health
If you want nothing more than to work out among the hardest of hard bodies in a sea of treadmills and tiny tank tops, Downsize Fitness isn’t the gym for you. In fact, new members need not apply unless they carry at least 50 pounds of excess body weight.
Like most people, Dr. Joseph Thornton, an associate professor at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, laughs at jokes about hemorrhoids, even appreciating the down-home wisdom some one-liners provide: “Hemorrhoid patients never play musical chairs.” But he also is the first to say that humor revolving around hemorrhoids is funnier if you don’t have the ailment.
Since it’s already February, you’re probably making good strides with your cardio program. Before long your abs will start to show, and you’ll be ready for the pools or the California beaches. When those abs do emerge from winter’s hibernation, you want them strong. To strengthen your core you’ll need a few good exercises and some applied principles.
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The Solari Hospice Foundation announced that it has established Camp Solari, a bereavement camp that will be held May 18-20 for children and their surviving parent or guardian.
Southwest Medical Associates has become the first medical group in Nevada to achieve a Level 3 accreditation — the highest level possible — from the National Committee for Quality Assurance as a Patient-Centered Medical Home.
Dr. Alan Steljes of Steljes Cardiology has been certified in sleep medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
ATLANTA — A government study suggests a lot of teenage girls are clueless about their chances of getting pregnant.
WASHINGTON — The first drug that treats the root cause of cystic fibrosis won approval Tuesday, offering a life-changing treatment for a handful of patients with the deadly illness and broader hope for thousands more patients with the inherited disease.
Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Stanley Prusiner, who discovered a revolutionary new class of proteins that cause devastating brain diseases in both animals and humans, has become chair of the scientific advisory board of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
Dr. Dipak Desai, at the center of the hepatitis C outbreak, is faking his physical disabilities to obstruct the criminal case against him, a prosecutor argued Tuesday.
