By KRISTI EATON
Health
When the news broke about a study that found many women with early breast cancer need not have all their underarm lymph nodes removed — even if they contain cancer cells — Christine Wunderlin was both happy and disappointed.
Hard hit by the recession, unemployed Nevadans are turning despondent, desperate, even suicidal. Calls from the suicidal jobless have increased in recent months, says Debbie Gant-Reed, hot-line coordinator for the Crisis Call Center in Reno. The center serves as Nevada’s suicide hot line.
District Judge Jackie Glass on Tuesday ordered Dr. Dipak Desai, the central figure in the 2007 Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak, to surrender March 17 to be taken to a state mental facility for further evaluation.
A new report ranks Nevada behind every state and the District of Columbia on its “State Scorecard on Child Health System Performance.” If Nevada improved its child health care performance to the rate of Iowa, the top state when it comes to preventive care visits, 161,540 more children up to age 17 in Nevada would receive both routine and preventive medical and dental care visits each year.