Health
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.
By SHARON CHAYRA
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.
As soon as Michelle Taylor looked in the mirror, she knew something was wrong. She now viewed the world through two narrow slits, and the area beneath one of her eyes had turned blue.
The Summer Food Service Program serves about 4,000 meals a day to kids in Clark County. The appetite for chicken nuggets, meatloaf sandwiches and baby carrots is expected to grow even larger next summer when 76 year-round elementary schools will no longer be in session.
According to pop culture, what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay here. With regard to disease, what happens here can spread virtually everywhere.