It’s the last thing you want to hear before heading off for a relaxing afternoon poolside, but here goes: Don’t think of it as swimming. Think of it as taking a bath with a few hundred strangers.

Summer has arrived, and with higher temperatures and sunny weather comes the increased chance that we two-legged desert creatures will interact, unexpectedly and potentially painfully, with some of our four-, six-, eight- and no-legged desert neighbors.

Your blood pressure is creeping up a bit, so you’re finally taking your doctor’s advice and shopping for a home blood-pressure monitor.

Tina Encheva is sitting in a chair in front of five women, all of them lying on their backs on top of spongy yoga mats. The women’s eyes are closed and their hands rest palms down just above their hearts.

Health nuts, medical practitioners and the curious now can find more than 100 economic, social and health indicators for Clark County.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas' School of Nursing celebrated 50 years with a ride on the SlotZilla Zipline in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday.

If you are a typical American, especially one who was born and raised here as we were, you probably believe—know—as we did that, Americans have a lock on fried chicken. Then we met Salve Vargas Edelman, who took us to her favorite Manila chicken joint. But this place, Max’s Restaurant, wasn’t in Manila. It was in Las Vegas, in a strip mall, a few miles past Caesars Palace, and it was there that we were fortuitously, deliciously, humbled.

Take a boatload of fun-seeking passengers out to sea, add a touch of norovirus, and what do you get a day or two later?

Thoughts beforehand: I’m coughing and tired? Get DayQuil and some rest. Hacking harder and getting weaker? Get NyQuil and serious rest. Hey, I’m still vertical, so…no biggie.

It takes a village to care for patients, and that means health care providers can’t work in a bubble. They need to talk to each other.