Hooked up to tubes and monitors, tiny babies who lack the body fat to maintain their body temperatures lie in hospital incubators that keep them warm.
Health
By SHARON CHAYRA
North Las Vegas resident Robert Mallory suffered a cardiac arrest July 23. His wife started CPR immediately, and firefighters used therapeutic hypothermia treatment to help him. The treatment has been adopted by five area hospitals.
It’s 2 a.m. I can’t breathe. Literally. Can. Not. Breathe. It’s like someone duct taped my nose and mouth closed and the only way I can get air is to poke a hole in my cheek with a pen.
The Southern Nevada Immunization Coalition and its partners will host back-to-school immunization clinics between August 21 and August 28 to vaccinate children against several diseases including mumps, hepatitis A and B, and varicella (chicken pox) and provide the Tdap inoculation against bordetella pertussis (whooping cough), which children entering the seventh-grade in are required to receive.
Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, one of the world’s leading Alzheimer’s disease researchers, sits in his Las Vegas office and says a laid-back retirement may literally cause people to lose their minds.
Four people in Clark County are among the few nationwide exposed to a rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever, which has been linked to a frozen tropical fruit product used to make smoothies, health officials reported Thursday.
Centennial Hills Hospital is taking on entrenched rivals as it tries to land new patients among the industrial parks of North Las Vegas.