COPD

Deanne Barkley dies at 82; pioneering TV executive

2013-04-11 20:05:00

Deanne Barkley, who broke through the glass ceiling in network television to become an influential executive in the early 1970s, when few women had the power to develop prime-time programs, died April 2 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. She was 82. The cause...

Herb Reed dies at 83; founder of the Platters

2012-06-06 00:00:00

Herb Reed was in his 20s when he founded the Platters in Los Angeles in 1953, naming his vocal group after the term used by radio DJs for the vinyl records of the day. Well into the digital download era — and into his 80s — Reed was still...

PASSINGS: Frank Javorsek, Warren Stevens

2012-03-30 00:00:00

Frank Javorsek Bluegrass player co-owned music store Frank Javorsek, 70, a bluegrass musician who co-owned the now-closed Blue Ridge Pickin' Parlor music shop in the San Fernando Valley and hosted a bluegrass radio show on KCSN-FM, died March 22 of a...

PASSINGS: Loren Miller Jr., Boris Chertok

2011-12-15 00:00:00

Loren Miller Jr. Longtime Superior Court judge Retired Superior Court Judge Loren Miller Jr., 74, the second of three generations of his family to serve on the bench in California, died Dec. 5 of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary...

Scott Wannberg dies at 58; poet and Dutton's book buyer

2011-08-25 00:00:00

Scott Wannberg, a gentle behemoth of the Los Angeles poetry scene and a mainstay of the old Dutton's bookstore in Brentwood, where for nearly 25 years he molded the reading habits of a wide assortment of customers and petted every dog that crossed the...

PASSINGS: Sybil Jason

2011-08-31 00:00:00

Sybil Jason, 83, a former child actress signed by the Warner Brothers Studio to rival Twentieth Century Fox star Shirley Temple, died Aug. 23 at her home in Northridge, her family announced. She had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Born in Cape...

What it's like to 'wear oxygen'

2009-06-01 00:00:00

A year ago I was diagnosed with COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a catch-all label for many different breathing problems. My particular situation is that my lungs are compressed and cannot expand sufficiently to provide needed oxygen. There...

Dr. Thomas L. Petty dies at 76; pioneering lung specialist

2010-02-06 00:00:00

Dr. Thomas L. Petty, the Colorado lung specialist who pioneered the use of continuous oxygen therapy for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other lung disorders, died at his home in Denver on Dec. 12 from pulmonary hypertension. He...

Medical marijuana inspires strong opinions, but what does science say?

2009-11-11 09:51:56

Depending on whom you ask, marijuana is a dangerous drug that should be kept illegal alongside heroin and PCP, or it's a miracle herb with a trove of medical benefits that the government is seeking to deny the public -- or something in between: a plant...

California Supreme Court addresses legal deadlines for tobacco lawsuits

2011-05-06 00:00:00

Leona Gage dies at 71; Miss USA of 1957 lost crown when it was learned she was married and a mother

2010-10-12 00:00:00

Leona Gage, who in 1957 was named Miss USA but had the title taken from her when pageant officials learned she was married and a mother of two, has died. She was 71. Gage died of heart failure Oct. 5 at Sherman Oaks Hospital, said her son Rob Kaminer....

Men too at risk for osteoporosis

2013-05-18 01:24:03

Osteoporosis is still considered a disease of older white women, but it is clear that both sexes and all ethnic groups have some risk for fracture, explains Dr Adnan Abdulwahid, Rheumatologist, Zulekha Hospital, Sharjah. Thus, even though women fracture...

Dr. Christen A. Tibbs has joined the department of internal medicine at the Dreyer Medical Clinic's Oswego location. She has special interests in diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney disease, women's health, and preventive care.

2012-09-27 11:17:00

Lowery has seven years of experience at the association, and she most recently served as director of lung health initiatives.

2012-08-24 13:25:00

W. Thomas Barnes, retired chief financial officer of Johns Hopkins Hospital whose charitable interests included many Baltimore nonprofits, died Jan. 17 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville.

2012-01-24 14:22:00