Posted: 4:01 AM With summer here and family road trips underway, it’s a phrase that parents may be hearing more and more from the back seat. More often than not, parents dismiss this kind of sibling bullying as harmless. Recent research begs to differ.
Updated: 10:11 PM The results of the latest national health survey by the government finds the percentage of smokers in the United States has dropped to 18 percent in 2012.
Posted: 4:52 PM To hear that your child has a potentially fatal condition is earth-shattering news for any parent. After learning that their daughter was born with cystic fibrosis, a Gardnerville family is choosing to fight. They are asking for your help to save their daughter, and others with cystic fibrosis.
Posted: 3:36 PM A children's product maker is recalling about 165,000 baby recliners linked to at least five infant deaths and dozens of reports of children falling or hanging over the side of the seats.
Updated: 6:33 PM President Barack Obama's administration can go forward with its new plan to make the morning-after pill available to buyers of any age without prescriptions, but it needs to do it promptly or face potential sanctions in the long-running dispute over access to the emergency contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Posted: 1:13 PM The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says an outbreak of hepatitis A linked to a frozen berry mix sold at Costco has grown to 87 people with illnesses in eight states.
Posted: 10:53 AM Advocacy groups for cancer patients are hailing a new Nevada law designed to lower costs for patients on oral medication.
Posted: 12:59 PM Bringing a new medicine to market in Africa requires 54 separate applications to each country on the continent, a time-intensive process that could be costing lives. African leaders are now trying to move toward a regional and eventually continentwide approach to speed the process.
Posted: 9:02 AM Komen Race For the Cure To Go On As Scheduled in Nevada
Updated: 4:21 PM Authorities say they've now identified six cases of hepatitis A in Nevada as part of a regional outbreak linked to a frozen organic berry mix from a farm in Oregon.
Updated: 9:54 AM The official start summer isn't quite here yet, but is sure feels like it, which means you'll probably want to head to the pool or the beach and you'll want to shed off those winter pounds. The city of Reno wants to give back to the community and give you a chance this summer to get down and shape up all for free.
Posted: 4:46 PM A new survey finds that sport fish from rivers and streams in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have higher levels of mercury in their systems than fish taken from anywhere else in California.
Updated: 6:57 AM The push to get medical marijuana card holders in Nevada a way to access the drug is nearing a pivotal juncture.
Posted: 11:14 AM Islamic extremist rebels are fighting a polio vaccination campaign in Somalia, charging that the inoculation contains the virus that causes AIDS or could make children sterile, a campaign of words that is frustrating health workers.
Posted: 6:43 PM Jurors hearing a lawsuit against AEG Live are seeing emails in which top executives at the concert promoter express concerns about Michael Jackson's health in the singer's final days.
Posted: 11:13 AM A surgeon who operated on Poland's first face transplant patient says the man is already practicing swallowing and making sounds.
Posted: 11:23 AM Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry says a woman has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 18.
Posted: 11:15 AM Authorities say West Nile virus has been confirmed in mosquitoes found in south Los Angeles County.
Updated: 8:18 AM Department of Justice lawyers filed court papers Friday again asking a federal appeals court to delay lifting age restrictions and prescription requirements on an emergency contraceptive popularly known as the morning-after pill.
Updated: 4:15 PM Some Nevada lawmakers say doctors should tell women with dense breast tissue that mammogram results are inconclusive, but some doctors say there's no need.
