You could evaluate the first decade of the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute in terms of speakers who spoke, fellows who wrote and literary journals published.

Clark County voters opted for more construction cones and road projects last week by approving a ballot measure that pegs the Clark County fuel tax to inflation.By a 56 percent to 44 percent margin, voters kept in place for the next decade a fuel tax rate that rises with cost of living.

When the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened in 2009, it was praised for state-of-the-art programming and dedication to researching neurodegenerative disease. The next thunder of accolades went to its Frank Gehry-designed building: The sloping, stainless shell structure is composed of anomalous windows and 18,000 tiles that pop up as a warped assemblage of structures at the edge of Symphony Park.

Intersex “is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male,” according to the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA).

When it comes to the history of women's fashion, taking the gloves off to fight can be taken in a very literal sense.

Business as usual on the Colorado River may be about to come to a screeching halt. One of the worst recorded droughts in human history has stretched water supplies thin across the far-reaching river basin, which serves 40 million people.

Hey new moms, don't put down that can of spinach just yet. A research team led by UNLV medical anthropologists found that eating encapsulated human placenta, a practice known as placentophagy, may not be as good a source of dietary iron for postpartum mothers as proponents suggest.

I know what you're thinking; if it's good enough for Kim Kardashian-West it's good enough for me, right? After Kardashian-West gave birth to son Saint in 2015, she reportedly had her placenta freeze-dried into pill form to combat possible iron deficiency. Well, a new study has found that eating placenta has no iron benefit.

For years now, there has been a trend of women eating their placentas after giving birth. Fans of the practice (known as placentophagia because “phagia” is the sound you make when you vomit) claim that it can prevent post-partum depression, increase milk production, and provide a source of nutrition for new mothers. A new study from UNLV, however, claims that when it comes to iron, women receive no benefit from eating their placentas.