Doctor

You've heard about the dangers of too much sun exposure and the need to use sunscreen. Still, you love the great outdoors and wouldn't miss a day of playing in the sun. Sunscreen? That is an afterthought. Or your prom or some other significant event is coming up so you opt for a tanning booth thinking….just this once. If any of these scenarios describes you, you may be setting yourself up for skin cancer.

A bill that would allow schools to obtain and administer auto-injectable epinephrine in the event of a student having a food allergy attack has cleared committee and is on its way to the General Assembly this week.

While it hasn't gotten a lot of press attention and isn't shrouded in controversy, SB453 is designed to protect children at school if they suffer from a food allergy attack or are stung by a bee and have an allergic reaction.

All it takes is a day or two of sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aches, or pains and many of us are immediately headed toward our primary care doc’s office. Once we enter the exam room, we spill our symptoms all over the office; “I can’t breathe”, “my throat hurts”, “my head hurts”, “I FEEL AWFUL!”. But, the way you feel is not an emotion. It’s how your body feels and it feels awful.

When money is withdrawn from an IRA but is planned to be repaid to that IRA custodian or a new IRA custodian (so it is not taxable), it is required to be repaid within 60 days of receipt.

IRS Letter Ruling (PLR) is not supposed to be relied upon by other taxpayers, but it does give some information and guidance about what IRS will do.

Let’s call her Ann, withdrew funds from her IRA on Dec. 22, 2011. In January 2012, she contacted a financial institution asking how to roll over the distribution to an account there. They emailed her instructions on how to do the non taxable roll over.

Wednesday morning this dog was struck by a car on Hwy 50 in Mound House, just under the V&T overpass, and left for dead. A good Samaritan stopped and picked him up, took him to Lone Mountain Vet in Carson City.

On Wednesday, March 13th from 6-7pm at the Holiday Inn Express in Minden, Nev., Dr. Missanelli will be discussing female anatomy, the history of gynecology in the United States, the da Vinci robot and the benefits of da Vinci surgery.

It is a great venue for women to ask a doctor specializing in women's care, all the questions you have always wanted to know! Call 530-543-5537 for more information or visit our website at www.bartonhealth.org/lecture.

The Holiday Inn Express is located at 1659 State Route 88 in Minden. See the flier below.

Carol Paz, host of "Women to Women" broadcast Thursday's on Charter Cable interviews Dr. Farnaz Khankhanian, Optometrist at Eagle Vision in Carson City.

CARSON CITY – Nevada State Medical Association President Florence Jameson said today that Gov. Brian Sandoval made a “politically courageous and correct” policy decision to expand the Nevada Medicaid program.

The decision will ensure that there will not be a new class of uninsured Nevadans when the federal health coverage changes are implemented in January 2014, said Jameson, a physician.

Regular readers of BikeCarson.com may have noticed that there have been far fewer postings lately. I suppose an explanation is warranted, because I don’t want you to think that I have lost interest in cycling, as this is not the case. I haven’t been riding my bike though, and it’s awfully hard to write about something I’m not actively engaged in.  After years of tuning-up my bike, it was time to tune-up my body.

CONWAY, ARK. — A former Carson City emergency room doctor charged in a double murder will be allowed to leave jail — and the state — pending his trial in Arkansas after a judge agreed Friday that prosecutors failed to quickly take the case to trial.
Richard Conte, 62, will have to wear an electronic monitor and remain under house arrest at his mother’s home in Wisconsin, according to a ruling from Judge Charles E. Clawson Jr.

CONWAY, ARK. — A former Carson City emergency room doctor accused in a 2002 double slaying has been found mentally competent to stand trial for murder in January in Conway.
Richard Conte, 62, a former physician who lived in Douglas County, was charged in 2011 with capital murder for the execution-style slayings of businessman Carter Elliott, 49, and Timothy Wayne Robertson, 25.

There are no known outbreaks of meningitis in Northern Nevada, reports Carson Tahoe Hospital in Carson City.
Doris Dimmitt, hospital epidemiologist, reports that the hospital did not use the contaminated drug identified as causing the outbreak.
Nevada is identified as one of the states receiving the contaminated drugs. The FDA identified and seized five unopened vials of contaminated drug from Southern Nevada, but no infected patients have been identified state wide.

Your recent decision has stunned the residents of Virginia City, and, I hope, has dismayed the residents of Carson City into weighing in on your indefensible action.

On 26 July 2012, your agenda item was as follows:

'In May of 2012 Storey County voted to close the Storey County Public Library, (sic) Carson City Library Board of Trustees should consider a policy on a fee for issuing library cards to Nevada jurisdictions not providing any level of library service to their residents. (Action)'

Searchers hunting for missing Carson City doctor Gary Dankworth found the body of a man late Wednesday night during their search, confirmed a spokeswoman for the Inyo County Sheriff's Department.

Though the body has not been confirmed as that of Dankworth, KOLO8 is reporting that Carson-Tahoe Health issued the following statement:

“The Carson Tahoe family is saddened by the news of Dr. Dankworth’s death. The past several days have been difficult and we, like the rest of the community, have been hoping for the best. We are a small, close knit community and tragedies within our medical staff affect us all. Our hearts and prayers go out to his family and we will do all we can to support them during this very sad time,” said Ed Epperson, President and CEO.

I am writing to you about the recent statement about the Nye Regional Medical Center closing it doors if they don't get some help from the County or State. I enclosing a letter that explains why the state or county should allow it to close. There is serious mismanagement that has been going on for the last 4 years. Even through its the only health care facility's within a 100 plus miles still as a employee of the hospital I have witness many wrong doings and the placing of key personnel in positions that they would never be able to hold in any other hospital or clinic.

With songwriting credits that include “Wild One,” recorded by Faith Hill and “Stranded,” made famous by Heart, Jaime Kyle made a mark in the music world a long time ago.
Throughout her career, her songs have been recorded by numerous artists, featured on CD’s with combined sales of more than 19 million worldwide and has recorded and performed with such legendary artists as Leon Russell, Patty Griffin, Richard Marx, Amy Grant and Ozzy Osbourne. Today, she continues to perform her original music for audiences throughout Northern California.

If she didn't know it before, Melanie Pfeiffer learned on Sunday, June 12, just how warm and caring her community really is.

More than 140 participants were part of a 5-K run/walk/jog fundraiser on behalf of the Western Nevada College softball player who is battling melanoma skin cancer. The event raised $5,000 for Pfeiffer, who is without medical insurance. El Charro Avitia Restaurant in Carson City hosted the race venue and fed the participants afterward.

Rick Santorum — “Prenatal testing, particularly amniocentesis, I’m not talking about general prenatal care...We’re talking about specifically prenatal testing, and specifically amniocentesis, which is a procedure that actually creates a risk of having a miscarriage when you have it, and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies in the womb. And which in many cases, in fact most cases, physicians recommend, particularly if there’s a problem, recommend abortion.

Sochi, Russia is next on the list for orthopedic surgeon, Terrence Orr's medical volunteerism. As a physician with Tahoe Orthopedic & Sports Medicine, he will be previewing the future site of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games as part of his role as Head Team Physician for the United States Men's Alpine Ski Team — a position he has held since 1999.

The film"The Vow," currently on view at the Fandango Galaxy theater in Carson City, is a good bad film. The bad is the sweetness-loaded script and the apparently rock-dumb male lead, Channing Tatum, as Leo Collins. The good is co-star Rachel McAdams as Paige Collins. This is billed as a romantic comedy, ideal as a "date" outing. Maybe, but ...

Movie opens with a brief scene of now then goes back to five years earlier when Paige and Leo exchanged vows in a yuppie-like wedding. Thus, "The Vows."

Carson City Sheriff deputies this morning arrested Jorge Oscar Mattiello, 47, of Carson City, for felony preventing a victim from reporting a crime, plus misdemeanor counts of domestic battery, violation of suspended sentence and a failure to appear warrant for traffic violations.

Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of men and women in the United States – more than cancer, accidents, and communicable diseases.

Each year, nearly one in four deaths is caused by heart disease, but luckily, this is something we can all work together to change. There are many risk factors for heart disease: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, cigarette smoking, overweight and obesity, poor diet, physical inactivity and alcohol use. Many of these risk factors can be modified or eliminated by choosing to lead a healthy lifestyle.

I would like to know why Carson Tahoe Hospital & Clinic goes through Doctors & P.A.'s like people drink water?

Twenty percent of adults in Nevada said they smoke, but of those, 40 percent say they have considered quitting or would like to take action to quit smoking. The New Year brings a chance to act on the desire to quit. Why not make your health a priority this year and resolve to quit smoking?

Direcor-producer Steven Spielberg's film "War Horse," currently showing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City and elsewhere, is fine movie making, with a splendid cast. If it sinks into sentimentality at times, bear with it because the story, from a British children's book of 1982.

In pre-WWI Britain, Albert Narracott (Jeremy Irvine, well cast) is out to buy a plow horse for his father's farm but winds up with a stallion of beauty and intelligence. Albert teaches the horse, named Joey by Albert, to comae when he hoots a signal.

"The Sitter," billed as a black comedy and currently flickering at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, is mercifully only 81 minutes long, but that's long enough to spell disaster to any discriminating movie goer.

It stars comic actor Jonah Hill as college failure Noah forced into baby sitting three of the most repellent child actors in living memory. He is also pursuing a blonde who is suggesting intimacy that night.

The latest take on the popular teen-aimed "Twilight" sci-fi-fantasy-horror film series is in town and it's playing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex.

It's called 'Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn Part 1," and it brings back most of the cast of the earlier movies, although this is P-13 stuff with a lot of eroticism as well as all those fanged wolves. A teen film it is not, but you can bet a lot of teens are going to see it.

Officers arrested Craig Lawley, 25, an unemployed man from South Lake Tahoe, at 6 p.m. Wednesday for felony possession of heroin and felony possession of prescription notepads. Lawley was also arrested for four alleged misdemeanors - possession of stolen property, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, and a first-time driving under the influence.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A scientist who was the star defense witness in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor was sanctioned Wednesday by the trial judge and fined $250 for violating a court order durin...

LOS ANGELES - Jail time is not the only problem looming for the doctor convicted in Michael Jackson's death. Lawsuits, medical licensing issues and possible payments to Jackson's family await.Some ...