The doctor walks into an examining room to meet a new patient: A big, roundish guy with billowing white whiskers, rosy cheeks and an infectiously jolly manner, dressed in “all red, and wearing a strange hat.”
It is apparent the jolly old soul is woefully out of shape.
We were in the fifth grade when my friend David started feeling tired all the time. Instead of wanting to play ball, he wanted to sleep. He complained that his arms and legs hurt. David was dying of leukemia, a form of cancer.
“A little help here… anybody,” I muttered with a loaded bar on my chest that I thought I could lift but really couldn’t. Had I used the Smith machine on days I was lifting solo, I wouldn’t have worried because the machine is the spotter.
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Quality Care IPA, a new local independent physicians association, will offer its services in the Las Vegas Valley beginning in January.
Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang, the first medical director of the Nevada Cancer Institute, will never forget how his association with the nonprofit medical center began.
If you’re feeling blue during what should be one of the happiest, most perfect times of the year, it may be because you expect it to be one of the happiest, most perfect times of the year. And in reality, it’s, well, reality.
This is, in fact, prime time for depression, therapists say.
When she gave her husband a huge bear hug and told him how much she loved him, a breath escaped from his lips. “Are you sure he’s still not with us?” Jean Georges recalls asking a nearby medical attendant through her tears. A little more than a half hour earlier, Leonard Georges, had died from Alzheimer’s disease.
I’ve never been a fan of skinny jeans because they don’t fit over my thighs. Not that skinny jeans ever fit over any but the thinnest thighs for that matter. I say down with skinny jeans and back to quadriceps that are big enough to function.
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court has ruled that most bone marrow donors can be paid, overturning the government’s interpretation of a law making such compensation a crime punishable by up to five years in prison.
