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Doctors with Databases

Oct 02, 2020

What if accessing medical records was as easy as using an ATM?

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Dr. Lo Fu Tan meditates daily to reduce stress, improve his mood, and better serve patients.
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Healthcare: Healing the Healers

Aug 01, 2019

Long hours, heavy workloads, high stress. How do doctors avoid burnout? Increasingly, with practices such as mindfulness and meditation

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"I swear I will!"

Jul 25, 2016

When my son threatened suicide, I thought help would be a phone call away. Instead, I entered a maze of false hopes and shockingly scant resources

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By your side: Dr. Dean Tsai visits with Gary Gould, a hospice patient suffering from ALS.
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Compassion crusade

Jan 25, 2016

Southwest Medical Associates Hospice forged its mission during the AIDS crisis. The crisis is over, but the mission lives on — with hospice house calls that bring comfort to the dying.

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Dry ideas

May 26, 2015

In a hard-drinking, 24-hour town, a new form of a drug holds hope for recovering alcoholics.

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Waiting to Inhale

Feb 01, 2015

After two UNLV researchers discovered asbestos in Southern Nevada soil, they wanted to study it further. Why did state health authorities stand in their way?

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License to chill

Nov 01, 2014

A battle is brewing over who can perform hypnotherapy, and who can’t. At stake: the careers of hypnotherapists — and the mental health of their clients  

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This is not the end: The hospice revolution

Aug 01, 2013

As more Southern Nevadans take advantage of hospice and palliative care, the often-misunderstood specialties are becoming crucial pieces of the health care puzzle

Meet Jimmy Bryant. He currently has stage IV emphysema with severe chronic pulmonary obstructive disease.

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Where the docs are

Aug 01, 2012

Can Southern Nevada become a medical tourism destination? Judging by these specialists attracting patients from far and wide, we’re on our way.

In the post-recession search for a more diverse — and thus secure — local economy, Las Vegas leaders have set their sights on medical tourism.

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Hear me, heal me

Jan 01, 2012

An audio treatment system offers hope to children with learning disabilities. It’s music to the ears of some parents

In her sparsely furnished office at the back of Brain Solutions, owner Kirsten Lopez flips open a laptop on her desk and turns the monitor to face me.

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A new workout for getting lean, mean and pretty

Dec 01, 2011

The latest fitness trend Pure Barre goes for graceful strength, not frenzied weight loss

Many of us have tried so many workouts that we aren’t fatigued just from the workouts — we’re exhausted by the workout options. We’ve tried to Zumba, spin, kickbox and Jazzercise our way to better health.

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By leaps and bounds

Nov 01, 2011

Two young men take on childhood obesity with a free fitness program that’s fun — and fierce

Oh, great — another initiative against childhood obesity. (Yawn.

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Dissed herbing: A new law may change the practice of alternative medicine

Aug 01, 2011

Does a new state law protect consumers from quacks, or target health food experts

Next time you’re at your local natural foods store, and you ask an employee about curing heartburn or lowering your blood pressure with foods or herbal supplements, pay close attention to the answer. A new state law that goes into effect Oct.

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Your patient died. Try again?

Jun 25, 2010

At the Simulation Center, tomorrow's doctors learn to take care of humans -- using robots

The 5-year-old boy is slowly turning blue in his hospital bed. Carolyn Yucha enters the room and takes his hand into hers.

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