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First medical business opens in Las Vegas Medical District: Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015; “This is really the next story of Las Vegas,” said David Steinberg, managing partner of Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging.
Las Vegas ranks in bottom half of best places to live: Monday, Aug. 3, 2015; Las Vegas could learn a thing or two about good living from Austin, Texas, Raleigh, N.C., and Colorado Springs, Colo. Those are the best large cities to live in, according to ...
Teen birth rates highest in Las Vegas’ poorest neighborhoods: Monday, Aug. 3, 2015; Teen birth rates in some of Las Vegas’ most economically depressed neighborhoods are quadruple the national average and more than 13 times higher than in the valley’s most affluent regions ...
Ruvo Center seeks participants for Alzheimer’s study: Thursday, July 30, 2015; The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is looking for people with mild to moderate forms of Alzheimer's disease to participate in ...
St. Rose Dominican Hospitals — Siena Campus to hold open house Saturday: Thursday, July 30, 2015; St. Rose Dominican Hospitals — Siena Campus is hosting an open house Saturday to show off its new five-story tower. The preview party will be held from ...
Consumer Reports ranks Centennial Hills as best hospital in region at avoiding infections: Wednesday, July 29, 2015; Centennial Hills Hospital is a local leader in preventing potentially-deadly infections.
Law enforcement discusses Islamic State threat in Las Vegas with interfaith group: Wednesday, July 29, 2015; Homegrown extremists influenced by the Islamic State remain a top security concern, law enforcement officials told community members ...
A step-by-step guide to complaining to your landlord: Monday, July 27, 2015; By law, your apartment or rental home must be kept safe and in a condition that provides reasonable comfort for the average person, meaning it has running water, working toilets and bathing facilities, heating, electricity and other requirements. Rental properties that violate housing and health codes are not considered habitable, and your landlord must make repairs. How do you go about getting him or her to do so? The Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada suggests following these steps ...
How dinner can feed relationships with senior citizens: Sunday, July 26, 2015; Mealtimes last nearly twice as long (43 minutes on average) when seniors share meals with others than when they eat alone (22 minutes). The Sunday Dinner Pledge is an online commitment people can make pledging to eat dinner with their elderly relatives at least once a month ...
Health care outside the male and female checkboxes: Sunday, July 26, 2015; Jackson Nightshade is counting down the days until open enrollment for government-subsidized health insurance begins again in November. The 28-year-old ...
Desert Springs Hospital launches new cardiac program: Friday, July 24, 2015; Desert Springs Hospital has opened a cardiac rehabilitation unit to strengthen patients’ heart muscles and help them adopt healthier lifestyles. Called “Phase II” cardiac rehab, the personalized program ...
Calls to Rape Crisis Center climb 12 percent in six months: Thursday, July 23, 2015; The Rape Crisis Center says it needs volunteers to meet the demands of an increasing number of hotline calls and in-person visits. The nonprofit received ...
Renovations begin for Health District building set to open this year: Thursday, July 23, 2015; A vacant Target in a half-empty shopping complex near Meadows Mall will be buzzing with activity in a few months — this time as the new headquarters for the Southern Nevada Health District.
Southwest Medical to offer free immunizations for children: Wednesday, July 22, 2015; Southwest Medical is offering free immunizations and sports physicals for children and high school students Aug. 1 at ...
23 percent of Nevada children live in poverty: Tuesday, July 21, 2015; Nearly 1 in 4 of Nevada’s youngest residents were living in poverty in 2013, according to the most recent data in a new report released today.
What’s on the menu in jail: They’re not exotic, but Clark County inmates’ meals are a far cry from bread and water; Monday, July 20, 2015; The kitchen staff at the Clark County Detention Center generates about 9,000 hot meals daily – breakfast, lunch and dinner – for roughly 3,000 inmates. Inmates receive ...
Nevada’s doctor shortage affects Clark County: Monday, July 20, 2015; Nevada politicians, educators and health care workers point to Nevada’s doctor shortage as one of the state’s most pressing concerns. It creates long waitlists for patients ...
Las Vegas’ smallest sovereign nation: Southern Paiutes have cultivated land and business in the valley for centuries; Monday, July 20, 2015; Just north of downtown, sandwiched between Ewing Brothers Towing and Main Street, lies a sovereign nation. The 31-acre plot of land belongs to the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, which ...
Nonprofit aims to fill void left by shuttered organics program: Friday, July 17, 2015; Curious where you can find local organic products? Basin and Range Organics, a nonprofit recently formed during a meeting of organic growers and industry leaders in Nevada, hopes to ...
Henderson Hospital foundation pouring signals advance of Union Village: Friday, July 10, 2015; The facility is being built on 30 acres of the planned Union Village health care complex, which will anchor a 170-acre mixed-use development at ...
Flood insurance 101: What you need to know when water strikes: Thursday, July 9, 2015; Floods are one of the top three weather-related hazards Nevada residents will face. The National Weather Service already issued several flash-flood warnings this week when rain water swept through the northwest valley and flooded roads near the Linq ...
Acting commissioner appointed for state Division of Insurance: Tuesday, July 7, 2015; Amy Parks, chief insurance counsel and hearing officer for the Nevada Division of Insurance, will serve as acting insurance commissioner following the departure of Scott Kipper last week. Bruce Breslow, Nevada's director of ...
Men topple nursing walls in Nevada and nationwide: Health care field becoming more popular, especially for those changing careers; Sunday, July 5, 2015; Nursing programs in Southern Nevada have seen a growing number of men. Last year, 35 men enrolled in UNLV’s College of Nursing, more than double the number of male nursing students in 2009. Female enrollment, on the other hand, while still the majority, dipped from 130 in 2009 to 109 last year ...
1 person killed in 2-vehicle crash in western Las Vegas Valley: Saturday, July 4, 2015; One person died Friday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash in the western Las Vegas Valley, according to Metro Police.
2 seriously injured in crash involving RTC bus, car, truck: Friday, July 3, 2015; Two people suffered serious injuries in a two-vehicle collision that caused a pickup truck to slam into an RTC bus Friday in the northeast valley, according to Metro Police.
Clark County director of Department of Family Services to resign: Thursday, July 2, 2015; Facing public criticism, Lisa Ruiz-Lee, director of Clark County's Department of Family Services, sent a letter to her staff Wednesday announcing her resignation. "The decision to leave was mine and it was not ...
Nevada still hopes to have patient-dumping case dismissed: Wednesday, July 1, 2015; As far as San Francisco is concerned, a lawsuit pushing back against Nevada’s one-time practice of busing mentally ill patients to California will be moving forward. But Nevada is saying not so fast. The Supreme Court ...
Health District app shows restaurant grades, violations: Wednesday, July 1, 2015; Attention Las Vegas foodies: The Southern Nevada Health District has launched an app that might help you decide where — or where not — to dine. The app ...
$5 swim lessons offered at 3 Las Vegas community pools: Tuesday, June 30, 2015; As the summer swim season reaches its peak, three Las Vegas public pools are offering $5 swim lessons for ...
Every day in the emergency room is new as UMC acts as valley’s medical ‘catchall’: Each work shift brings myriad challenges for doctors; Monday, June 29, 2015; UMC operates Southern Nevada’s only Level 1 trauma center and the state’s only burn center. As such, it’s often the landing place for people with life-threatening gunshot wounds, motorists involved in car wrecks, people who attempted suicide and others barely clinging to life ...
Competitive eating is more than just chowing down: Monday, June 29, 2015; Miki Sudo is downing oysters at the Orleans. Although they’re not her favorite, Sudo grabs a half shell, raises it to her mouth, sucks out the raw oyster and swallows it whole. A few minutes later, all that remains is a stack of empty shells. A day after the oyster session, Sudo downs platefuls of pot stickers, prepping for a different competition. Last summer, she won the women’s division of Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, sucking down 34 hot dogs in 10 minutes. It’s unlikely the average diner can match Sudo, down 103 hamburgers in eight minutes like ...
Mosquitoes test positive for West Nile virus in valley: Tuesday, June 16, 2015; The Southern Nevada Health District announced today that mosquitoes tested positive for West Nile virus in eight area ZIP codes. The infected mosquitoes were collected in ...
It feels like home: Group of Cleveland fans enjoys NBA Finals at local bar: Saturday, June 13, 2015; Before I even fully took my seat Thursday evening at the Boulevard Bar and Grill, the guy next to me donning a Cleveland Cavaliers hat smiled broadly and introduced himself. He must be from the Midwest, I thought. It ...
Female veterans — where are you?: Locating such servicewomen in Nevada proves to be uphill battle; Friday, June 5, 2015; As Nevada officials ponder ways to improve services for female veterans, they first must answer a puzzling question: Where are they? The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates more than 21,000 female veterans live in Nevada, but the state Department of Veterans Services has identified only about ...
Shelter plans to save 90 percent of its animals by 2020: Thursday, June 4, 2015; With barking in the background, the Animal Foundation today announced plans to save 90 percent of animals that enter its shelter by 2020. “Our board has set a goal to save all healthy and treatable animals,” said Christine Robinson, executive director of the Animal Foundation, which operates the largest shelter in Las Vegas. Animal Foundation staff will create a five-year strategic plan, which will be ...
Roseman University buys more land for medical school: Monday, June 1, 2015; Roseman University has picked up 3.5 more acres of land in Summerlin, expanding the campus for a future medical school. The university bought the land ...
Hydropower: A dam good energy source: Monday, June 1, 2015; Hydropower, derived from falling or running water, is the oldest renewable energy technology in existence and the United States’ largest source of renewable electricity. Last year, hydropower accounted for about 6 percent of total U.S. electricity generation and 52 percent of generation from all renewables. But it could produce even more. Only 3 percent of the 80,000 dams in the United States make electricity. Most were constructed for ...
Fitness center planned for Union Village health care complex: Thursday, May 28, 2015; Las Vegas Athletic Clubs plans to build its eighth fitness center at Union Village, the massive health care complex under construction in Henderson, the company announced today. The new 85,000-square-foot facility’s amenities ...
Touro students invent devices for people with disabilities: Wednesday, May 27, 2015; When Sydney Carnevale worked at a horse therapy program in Maryland, she met a U.S. Navy veteran who lost most of his right arm when a bomb exploded in Afghanistan ...
Event offers chance to get rid of unwanted prescription meds: Tuesday, May 26, 2015; Are unwanted prescription medications cluttering your cabinets? A prescription pill turn-in event will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at ...
For them, serving veterans is personal: Sunday, May 24, 2015; Leading up to Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Marianne Schwartz and George Barnett station themselves at local grocery stores to hand out poppies in honor of the men and women who have served in the U.S. military. The pair donates the money they raise to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the USO centers in McCarran International Airport and U.S. Vets in Las Vegas. Much of the money goes toward ...
Report: More domestic-violence victims seeking help: Thursday, May 14, 2015; More than 40,000 domestic-violence victims sought help from state-funded programs in 2014, a 13 percent increase over the previous year, according to an annual report released today by ...
A call to ‘citizen scientists’: Project urges being proactive on brain health: Tuesday, May 12, 2015; You might know your body mass index (BMI), but do you know your brain health index?
If you were terminally ill, would you want the right to die?: Monday, May 11, 2015; You are given six months to live. The diagnosis: cancer, ALS or some other terrible, fatal disease. The symptoms begin to take hold. Seizures. Mood changes. Loss of motor skills. Do you suffer through the pain, grateful for the time you have left, and savor every last moment, good or bad? Or do you ...
New website provides public access to Southern Nevada health data: Friday, May 8, 2015; Curious how many local high school students eat the right amount of fruit?
How Clark County is coping with a string of teen suicides: Friday, May 8, 2015; From January through April, a 14-year-old, a 15-year-old and two 17-year-olds committed suicide in Southern Nevada, according to the Clark County Coroner’s Office. Dr. Jay Fisher, medical director of pediatric emergency services at University Medical Center, said there has been a steady, slow increase in adolescent suicides and suicide attempts over the past 50 years that doesn’t seem to be waning. A 12-year-old was hospitalized earlier this month after attempting suicide, Fisher said.
Abortion bill could be undone by the same group that proposed it — Republicans: Thursday, May 7, 2015; A controversial bill that would require parental notification for minors who want an abortion won approval last month in the Nevada Assembly, but supporters say friendly fire by Republicans in the Senate could be its demise. Assembly Bill 405, the first abortion-related measure taken up by the Nevada Legislature in years, requires that parents be notified if an unmarried girl ...
New southwest valley health care center opening in September: Wednesday, May 6, 2015; The healthcare company broke ground on the construction project last fall ...
Las Vegas doctor get 4 years for reusing needle guides: Tuesday, May 5, 2015; The former operator of Green Valley Urology has been sentenced to four years in federal prison and one year of supervised release for reusing needle guides intended for ...
Report: Las Vegas not too terrible a place for asthma sufferers: Tuesday, May 5, 2015; Las Vegas became an even more challenging place to live for asthma-sufferers in the past year, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America ...