Health
A Survivor’s Story
Facing down cancer—and living to race another day
After eight rounds of chemo and 33 rounds of radiation, Mary Hinson was cancer-free, and she has remained healthy for the past eight years. She continues her work at Lake Mead, raises her children—Jerra, 10, and Tyler, 13—and speaks out on breast cancer treatment and detection. “I’m convinced that I had the results that I have because I found it at an early stage,” she says. Read more »
The Navigator
Linda Buckley guides breast-cancer patients across the rugged terrain of treatment and recovery
A lumpectomy, chemotherapy, then a double-mastectomy and reconstructive surgery followed. Linda Buckley had an edge in coping with the medical procedures—she was a surgical intensive-care nurse—but she still found the system frustrating and was surprised at how little information was available. Once she regained her health, she knew it was time for a career shift. Buckley is now a breast health patient navigator, one of just three in the Valley certified by the National Consortium of Breast Centers. She heads Sunrise Hospital’s Breast Center, the only comprehensive breast center in Southern Nevada—which means it offers the full spectrum of services for breast-related diseases. Read more »
Sweat in Style
New luxury fitness center plans to make a splash in Summerlin
Is it a gym or a resort? Life Time Fitness hopes you think it’s both. The luxury fitness chain has 92 locations in 21 states, but on May 13, it will unveil the largest of them all—its first Las Vegas location, next to the Red Rock Resort in Summerlin. The three-level, 200,000-square-foot Life Time Athletic will feature water-park slides, a rock-climbing wall and a full-service spa where you can get Botoxed. Read more »
Might as Well Jump
UNLV alums make it their goal to fight childhood obesity
When only three kids showed up at Willows Park in Las Vegas for the first Camp Jump last June, UNLV students and camp co-founders Anthony Alegrete and Branden Collinsworth were disappointed, but undeterred. They had a goal and they knew how to get there. Read more »
Flex Time?
It’s about time! This new Cirque-inspired workout turns the old stretching grind into child’s play.
For those of you who hate working on your flexibility—which is almost everybody, despite its importance to well-being—there’s a new way to get there that’s not excruciatingly boring. It might even be fun. That’s because the masters of flexibility and fun, Cirque du Soleil, have teamed with Reebok to come up with Jukari Fit to Flex, and Las Vegans at 24 Hour Fitness gyms are among the first to try it. Read more »
Local physical therapist introduces a better Bengay
Las Vegas physical therapist Scott Pensivy has been helping patients recover from injury for more than 20 years, treating everyone from Cirque du Soleil performers to tennis legend Boris Becker. In addition to a wide variety of rehabilitation techniques, Pensivy has often used over-the-counter anti-inflammatory pain-relief creams on his patients, but he was never satisfied with the results. Now, together with Jim Song, president of the Henderson-based nutraceutical firm Longevity, Pensivy has developed Rehab 1000, a therapeutic cream that helps reduce pain and inflammation while producing a warming sensation similar to a heating pad, but with deeper effects. “The cream sits in the muscle, and if you’re active it really kicks in,” Pensivy says. “This won’t blister, won’t stain and it doesn’t smell. I mean, who wants to smell like Bengay?" Read more »
Family Planning
A Las Vegas clinic helps women with cancer have a chance at motherhood
When a woman is diagnosed with cancer, the immediate focus is on recovery. Oncologists don’t always tell their patients that for 40 to 80 percent of women of childbearing age, chemotherapy leads to infertility. One Las Vegas fertility clinic (which also has eight other clinics across the nation) is working with cancer patients to help them have children later in life. Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine’s Fertility Rescue Program will freeze the eggs of cancer patients for free, saving them upward of $10,000. Read more »
The Best Medicine
Need a good doctor? Here are 200 of Las Vegas’ top primary care physicians and specialists from which to choose.
Few things are more important in life than having a doctor you can trust. But that right person for your specific needs—whether a family physician or plastic surgeon—can be difficult to find, especially in a transient community like Las Vegas. So, to help you in that quest, as well as to celebrate the best in a most-important profession, Vegas Seven teamed up with Consumers’ Checkbook of Washington, D.C., to present what will be an annual guide to our city’s top doctors. Read more »
Mr. Results
Trainer Paul Rosenberg’s unique regimen keeps his ‘before and after’ collection growing
Paul Rosenberg figured out that image was important around the time most kids do. “When I was 15 years old I was very skinny,” he recalls. “And I thought if I put on some muscles that would help me with women.” But Rosenberg proved to be a little more persistent than your average teenage boy, and the results showed up not just in the shape of his physique but that of his future. Read more »
7 New Workouts
Get acquainted with the hottest—and sweatiest—workout regimes for the new year and the new you
Last year in this magazine we told you about a number of workout trends. Remember kettlebells and Cross-Fit? While those regimens are still raging, 2011 offers a fresh slate of ways to help you live up to that New Year’s resolution to try a new way to get in shape. Here are seven we found worth looking into: Read more »
