Your genes may hold clues to your optimal diet plan. That’s what UNLV researcher Martin Schiller advocates with his new business, Food Genes and Me.
Jessie Bekker
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Jessie Bekker joined the Review-Journal in 2017 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. A Milwaukee, Wisconsin native, she left the snowy Midwest for the desert heat to cover health.
Just like any full-service emergency room, Elite Medical Center treats a range of urgent medical problems, from headaches to heart attacks. But unlike the other ERs in Southern Nevada, you’ll generally pay more for your care.
Centennial Hills Hospital must pay a Las Vegas man and his daughter nearly $43 million in damages after a jury ruled that the hospital and its staff breached standards of care by administering a drug that killed the man’s wife.
Estimated to cost $95 million, the expansion will add 56 patient beds, bringing the northwest Las Vegas hospital’s total to 318. The expansion will build out the facility’s neonatal and adult intensive care units and the medical surgical units.
The nonprofit Vitalant, which strives to maintain a four-day supply of type O blood, had only about a half-day supply on hand Wednesday. Other blood types also are in short supply.
Nathan Adelson Hospice is using a grant to promote resources still available for Oct. 1, 2017, shooting survivors at the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center.
Lists of costs for procedures, drugs and devices are now posted on the websites of 13 valley hospitals to comply with a new federal rule designed to provide additional consumer transparency.
In the age of technology, aging at home is all about connectivity.
About 90 percent of Las Vegas teens and young adults think mental health is a priority, but only half are talking about it, according to a survey commissioned by Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.
The smaller, residential-style home opening by year’s end in Centennial Hills will focus on providing skilled care and independence for the elderly in a less-institutional setting.
Nevada’s behavioral health policy leaders are looking to improve crisis intervention and gather data in the 2019 legislative session.
From glasses that correct posture to a breast pump that quietly collects milk inside a nursing mom’s bra, advancements in health tech swept the show floors at CES 2019.
Lora Haddock expected to unveil a prototype of her company’s award-winning, vibrator-like device at CES this week.
It’s targeted toward seniors and people with disabilities, said Ty Takayanagi, the company’s vice president of marketing and business development.
Nerve stimulation to treat neurological conditions has been around for the last five decades, but lack of knowledge about its use in part led to the rise in the national opioid epidemic, members of a CES panel said Tuesday.
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