AIDS

Westboro Baptist Church defector struggles with her past

2013-05-20 07:00:00

TOPEKA, Kan. — The house was empty,�just as Libby Phelps had planned. Slipping inside that�afternoon four years ago,�she felt as if her heart would burst�through her chest. She peeked through the curtains, terrified that her aunt and uncle�...

Illinois Senate approves bill to legalize medical marijuana

2013-05-17 18:38:00

Illinois has come within a signature of becoming the 19th state to allow marijuana use for medical purposes. On Friday, the state Senate voted 35-21 to approve a medical marijuana measure, which now will head for Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk. The...

Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD

2013-05-15 00:00:00

If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing...

An administrative law judge ruled that JPL unfairly disciplined scientists over emails sent at work

2013-05-13 16:41:00

A National Labor Relations Board judge has ordered NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Ca�ada Flintridge to rescind disciplinary actions against five scientists who shared emails at work about a Supreme Court decision on background security...

Interior designer knows stars' homes inside out

2013-05-10 21:23:00

The gig: Interior designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard is in demand among Hollywood celebrities: Christina Aguilera, Kid Rock and Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne are among his clients. His inviting and eclectic interiors have graced the pages of Architectural...

An artisanal Bible: A handwritten copy, four years in the making

2013-05-06 08:01:00

A man in upstate New York has just about finished a task that was common enough until the invention of the printing press: Over the past four years, he has copied the King James Bible by hand, the Associated Press reports. Phillip Patterson, a 63-year-...

Man sues Boy Scouts over alleged abuse from 1970s

2013-05-03 19:39:00

A Pennsylvania man on Friday sued the Boy Scouts of America, alleging that the youth organization failed to protect him from sexual abuse by a Scoutmaster nearly 37 ago and then covered it up. Carl Maxwell Jr. was one of five boys, ages 13 and 14, who...

HBO sees the light in Liberace biopic 'Behind the Candelabra'

2013-05-10 09:00:00

NEW YORK — When the news broke in 1987 that Liberace, the famously flamboyant pianist, was dead at age 67 with what his manager had claimed was anemia brought on by a watermelon diet but was, in fact, AIDS, it made front-page headlines around the...

France approves same-sex marriage

2013-04-23 16:10:00

PARIS — The French Parliament on Tuesday approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt, voting after months of often angry debate and sometimes violent protests in the streets. Members of the Socialist government chanted "Equality,...

Some vow to make CicLAvia a tradition

2013-04-21 16:32:00

After riding her trusty lavender Cannondale 10-speed from San Francisco to Los Angeles for the 2008 AIDS Ride, Fabiola Sanchez thought CicLAvia would be a breeze. She and her two children drove to Union Station from their home in Norwalk and started...

Government shuts down HIV/AIDS vaccine trial

2013-04-25 20:15:00

In another major setback for efforts to develop a vaccine to boost immunity to the human immunodeficiency�virus, known as HIV, a key clinical trial was ordered shut down this week after an independent panel of safety experts found that participants...

L.A. County condom mandate pushes porn producers into Ventura County

2013-04-23 05:00:00

Here is a political object lesson from the seamier, steamier end of the entertainment business: The new law in Los Angeles County requiring actors in pornographic films to wear condoms seems merely to have pushed the smutty movie industry into the quiet...

Paul Swift was in many of John Waters films but he is best remembered for his role as the Eggman in "Pink Flamingos." It was in 1972's "Pink Flamingos" -- in which he played Edith Massey's boyfriend -- that Swift delivered one of his more famous lines: "Beauty, beauty, look at you. . . .

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Cookie Mueller acted in five John Waters movies including "Pink Flamingos." In his book "Shock Value," Waters credited Mueller with coming up with the title for "Female Trouble." Mueller died in 1989 at age 40 from complications from AIDS.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

People with HIV/AIDS and their supporters rally at the State Capitol in Hartford Wednesday on AIDS Awareness Day. Politicians, supporters and people with HIV/AIDS spoke to urge continued fight against the disease and to lobby their legislators.

2013-05-08 00:00:00