Health
Five seniors in a line-dancing performance born of an exercise class, in black-and-white, hat-to-shoes Michael Jackson garb, each sporting Jax’s signature spangly glove.Know what? They’re pretty good. Even better, they’re getting a good workout.
When the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners undertook an investigation of his practice, Dr. Ralph Conti knew how to act in his best interest.
He thumbed his nose at the agency, not once but twice –in both 2008 and 2010.
It lifts, it rotates, it raises and it stabilizes your arm while your hand slices and dices. It’s the revolutionary joint that is your shoulder. I’ll show you how to use not one but both of them, because your body naturally chooses the path of least resistance.
St. Rose Dominican Hospitals and K|E Centers for Advanced Medicine are teaming to bring executive physical examinations to Southern Nevada.
In the two weeks before 16-year-old Joe Miller killed himself, he seemed to throw off his despair. He watched his younger brother and sister while his parents were out. He even took his mother out for ice cream three times.
Sion Lee, a 32-year-old graphic and Web designer in Las Vegas, has replaced his regular desk with a TrekDesk treadmill desk. Instead of sitting, he spends his days walking at about 2 mph, a pace that lets him talk on the phone without breathing hard and use his computer without falling off.
Residents now can discard unwanted or expired prescriptions in drop boxes at five Henderson Police Department locations.
It sat in front of him, on top of a pillow that rested on a milk crate. He sprinkled baby powder on it — what looked like a huge watermelon encased in a compression bandage — but the unmistakable smell of urine couldn’t be completely smothered.
Tormented by disabling treatments, debilitating pain and relentless collection agencies, Ginger Fisher said last year that the interventions to keep her alive caused problems she wished neither she nor her family had to deal with.
Only 39 when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she was 42 when she died recently.
Most men don’t do certain exercises because they think they look to “girly.”
They tend to avoid the abduction (outer thigh) and adduction (inner thigh) machines, apparently thinking they’re only for women. I hope that after reading today’s column, many men will leave their machismo at home the next time they work their legs.