Chronic diseases are long-term medical conditions that often can be prevented; the top ones include heart disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity. There is no super food or fad diet to combat them — the key is eating well, getting moderate physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight and avoiding smoking.
6 August 2015
By Sylvia Song
Is anyone really in a good position to be able to look at a story and know if it’s true or not?
6 August 2015
By Bruce Morgenstern, MD
My weight-loss journey began with a challenge to my science students: design an experiment to test whether an individual could become better off by eating nothing but McDonald’s for 90 days.
6 August 2015
By John Cisna
Leonard Rosales knew something was wrong last year when he began noticing unusual symptoms. Constantly thirsty, he experienced sporadic episodes during which he simply felt “off.”
6 August 2015
By Tracy Wakefield, MD
If you try to eat organically and avoid genetically modified ingredients, going to a restaurant can be tough. It’s one thing to buy organic at the grocery store, but that might not be as easy to do when dining out, leaving you with a tall glass of delicious water while your dining companion dives in to the rib-eye with béarnaise sauce.
6 August 2015
If you draw a line along the Southern states, this area is often referred to in the medical profession as the “Stone Belt” because of the hot climates where dehydration is common.
6 August 2015
By Sarah Ryan, MD
There are myriad cholesterol medications that help regulate cholesterol levels, including statins, bile acid sequestrants, nicotinic acid, fibric acids and cholesterol absorption inhibitors.
5 August 2015
By Judith Ford, MD
Like many modern health issues, our understanding of ulcers has evolved over time.
5 August 2015
By Nicholas Tibaldi, MD
Henderson resident George Linton is all too familiar with cancer diagnoses and the unique dietary challenges that can come with them.
5 August 2015
By Matthew M. Schwartz, M.D.
Childhood obesity is more prevalent today than ever before. In America, approximately 17 percent — 12.7 million children — ages 2 to 19 years old are considered obese.
5 August 2015
Marissa Mussi
Your pharmacist has reviewed medications for drug-drug interactions, but is most likely not aware of an individual’s particular diet and may not know which drug-food interactions would apply.
5 August 2015
Jayme Garcia
“I’ve had trouble with eating disorders for over 20 years, since I was 16 years old. In the past I went to treatment and saw different therapists on and off. Now is my first time finding success,” said Jennie.
5 August 2015
Jessica Kantor
According to a study funded by Food Allergy Research & Education, the rate of peanut allergies among school-age children more than tripled from 1997 to 2008.
5 August 2015
Claudine Mendoza, MD
According to CDC’s 2012 National Diabetes Statistics Report, 29.1 million Americans, or 9.3 percent of the population, had diabetes and of those almost 28 percent went undiagnosed.
5 August 2015
Joyce Goedeke
Recovery, like addiction, is a very personal journey. Individuals are not just taking themselves off of a drug their body is physically dependent on. They are taking themselves out of a way of life and either learning or unlearning attributes that make them who they are ...
4 June 2015
Jessica Kantor, Special to VEGAS INC
Southern Nevada is fortunate to have the warm, dry weather that attracts many to retire and live out their golden years in the golden sun. This hopefully helps alleviate the potential aches and pains in our senior citizens, yet, this population needs to maintain their health awareness ...
4 June 2015
By Joyce Goedeke, Special to VEGAS INC
Peoples was referred to me when she moved to Nevada to be closer to her grandkids. By that time, nearly her entire low back was fused from L2 to S1. She had 10 screws, one of which was broken and two 10-inch rods. She had four discs that had been removed and replaced with plastic polymer implants. She had multiple revision surgeries, fusions, bone grafts, cadaver bone — she had fused 80 percent of her lumbar spine, and probably 100 percent of her functional lumbar spine ...
4 June 2015
Dr. Andrew Cash, Special to VEGAS INC
Myasthenia gravis is characterized by weakness and rapid fatigue of any of the muscles under voluntary control and is caused by a breakdown in the normal communication between nerves and muscles. There is no cure, but treatment can help relieve signs and symptoms such as weakness of arm or leg muscles, double vision, drooping eyelids and difficulties with speech, chewing, swallowing and breathing ...
4 June 2015
Paula Lane, Special to VEGAS INC
The stigma of mental illness is a paradox; it’s all around us but creates a blanket of anonymity that keeps sufferers unseen and often untreated for months, years, decades or sometimes a lifetime ...
4 June 2015
Amanda Llewellyn, Special to VEGAS INC
Here are some health care basics to understand ...
4 June 2015
Kay-Lynn Bowman, PharmD, M.S., Special to VEGAS INC
Regularly visiting a primary care doctor is an important component of staying healthy but many people might not be taking full advantage of their one-on-one time with providers ...
4 June 2015
Tracy Wakefield, M.D., Special to VEGAS INC
As children grow from newborn into young adults, they cross several milestones along the way — both medically and developmentally. Each year, health care needs change and there are different milestones that should be met. Knowing what to look for allows parents to provide support and prepare children as they reach the milestones. In some cases, it allows parents to realize when something may need to be done ...
3 June 2015
Marissa Mussi, Special to VEGAS INC
We reached out to more than 4,000 physicians and medical professionals in Southern Nevada. We asked them who they recommend in a variety of specialties and are proud to share with you the top names — those doctors who were recommended over and over again ...
3 June 2015
By VEGAS INC Staff
Anti-cancer drug development has evolved over the last decade to further target the cancer cells’ molecular anomalies. Where research once focused on the anatomical location of a specific cancer (lungs, breasts, kidneys, gallbladder or the pancreas, for example), new studies are looking deeper ...
26 February 2015
RMHC of Greater Las Vegas offers several volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups of all ages.
26 February 2015
"The biggest reward is that we make a difference with the patients and their caregivers/families, and seeing the smiles on the patient’s faces at the end of our visit."
26 February 2015
Given Las Vegas’ ideal environment— a bustling honeycomb of illicit opportunity — it’s hardly a surprise that Southern Nevada’s population center has always topped the FBI’s list for child prostitution ...
25 February 2015
Ruth Furman, Special to VEGAS INC
We each know someone who experiences chronic pain, the result of disease or accident or the lingering side effect of surgery ...
25 February 2015
Timothy Tollestrup, M.D., Special to VEGAS INC
The cancer world’s smart bomb comes in the form of an immunotoxin. Immunotoxins carry a payload of chemotherapy and attach to the cancerous cell, killing it when the time is right ...
25 February 2015
Drs. Edwin Kingsley and Nicholas Vogelzang
For people such as Arlett Valencia, who is waiting for a life-saving kidney and pancreas transplant, there is no greater gift than the gift of life. Enter Nevada Donor Network ...
25 February 2015
Latoya Bembry, Special to the Sun
Take a 24-hour town, round-the-clock, never-sit-down job shifts and an aging workforce and you have prime conditions for vascular issues ...
25 February 2015
Ruth Furman, Special to VEGAS INC
Studies show that one in three adults over the age of 40 have reported symptoms of overactive bladder at least sometimes. It does become more common
25 February 2015
Jason Zommick, M.D.
In July 2014, Narula became the first physician in the Western United States to conduct a revolutionary procedure. He was among the first handful of cardiologists in the world to conduct an implant of the Evera MRI implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) system.
24 February 2015
Dr. Stephen Portz, Special to VEGAS INC
It’s been a few months since Elizabeth Bailey-Smith has been discharged from physical therapy and she wears her state-of-the-art prosthetic leg all the time. A cane helps, but ...
24 February 2015
Laura Carroll, Special to VEGAS INC
In the wake of the Affordable Care Act, health care organizations across the nation are recognizing the importance of focusing more intently on quality of care and improved medical outcomes. For some organizations, this is a dramatic departure ...
24 February 2015
Ama Brobbey, M.D.
Medical facilities in Nevada are increasingly adapting to accommodate patients’ diverse health care needs, with a strong focus on providing patients with improved access to treatment. These efforts include ...
24 February 2015
Larry Blumenthal
Transitioning into the role of professional nurse is cause for great excitement and apprehension for the student nurse. Nursing school is tough, but the student nurses have their professors to help them ...
24 February 2015
By Rosemary Thuet, R.N., M.S.N.
As your loved ones get older, they may decide to move into a nursing home. There are a tremendous amount of benefits from living in a nursing home, but picking the right one can be very difficult ....
24 February 2015
Jamie Cogburn
“The new robotics system at UMC is a perfect fit and it’s one of the only hospitals in the valley with the system,” Dr. Ovunc Bardakcioglu said. “The advanced technology is superior to all others as it allowed me to work in the upper and lower part of the body at the same time. I was able to remove her entire colon using the robotics system.”
19 February 2015
Danita Cohen, Special to VEGAS INC
As part of the efforts to attract more visitors and more meetings and conventions, the LVCVA has turned its sights on becoming the top destination for a growing niche market that has great potential to expand to our economy: health and wellness tourism.
12 August 2013
By Cheryl Smith, LVCVA
