Crohn's Disease

Channa Horwitz dies at 80; artist known for geometric paintings, drawings

2013-05-03 19:24:00

Channa Horwitz, an artist known for her dizzyingly intricate geometric drawings and paintings based on complex predetermined systems, died Monday of complications from Crohn's disease at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. She was 80. In 1968,...

Ken Baumann's secret life in books

2013-05-03 12:00:00

To some people — those who might attend a guerrilla reading in San Francisco, for example — Ken Baumann is a writer and small-press publisher who is part of the contemporary literary vanguard. And yet, to a generation of adolescent girls, he's...

For Westmont College women, sadness fueled an ardor on the court

2013-03-30 18:11:00

MONTECITO — Her final pep talk wasn't a pep talk at all. Kirsten Moore was beyond pep. Her final pep talk, given while surrounded by her Westmont College women's basketball team before the NAIA national championship game, was her chance to say...

'Melrose Place' actress sentenced to 3 years in deadly DUI crash

2013-02-15 10:22:00

Actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer spent a season living at "Melrose Place" -- now she'll spend three years living behind bars at a New Jersey state prison. Locane-Bovenizer was sentenced Thursday to three years for vehicular homicide and three for assault by...

The gut and its bacteria a growing focus of research

2012-09-13 00:00:00

The yards of dank tubing in our midsections form a complex, amazing and absolutely pivotal foundation for human health. And the more that scientists come to appreciate this, the more they anticipate that future medical discoveries will come from the lowly...

Probiotics: A gut-check on bacterial health

2012-10-06 00:00:00

A fascinating, if disconcerting, fact: More than 100 trillion so-called good bacteria thrive in or on the human body. A sizable chunk of them maintain residence in the human digestive tract. Probiotics, live microorganisms that benefit their human host,...

Jennifer Jaff dies at 55; advocate for the chronically ill

2012-10-01 00:00:00

Jennifer Jaff was on the brink of attending law school when her doctor tried to stop her because she had a debilitating chronic illness. "I decided I couldn't stay in bed the rest of my life," she later said. "I had to live." Decades later she was a...

Nonfiction

2011-11-30 00:00:00

The Age of Movies The Selected Writings of Pauline Kael Edited by Sanford Schwartz Library of America, $40 Witty, entertaining and often exhilarating, this wide-ranging collection of pieces captures the film critic at her best. Alice James A...

Dan O'Bannon dies at 63; screenwriter of 'Alien'

2009-12-19 00:00:00

Dan O'Bannon, the acclaimed science fiction/horror film screenwriter who was best known for writing the blockbuster hit "Alien" and who also directed and wrote the zombie fest "The Return of the Living Dead," has died. He was 63. O'Bannon, whose...

To soothe the body

2009-08-17 00:00:00

If you want to live longer -- avoid heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and cancer -- then pick and choose your foods with care to quiet down parts of your immune system. That's the principle promoted by the founders and followers of anti-inflammatory...

Robert Keller, editor

2013-05-18 12:18:28

Robert Keller, The Evening Sun's first metropolitan editor and later executive director of the Greater Baltimore Committee, died May 12 of complications from Crohn's disease at Harbor Hospital. He was 71. The son of a banker and a bookkeeper, Robert...

Your Health: Gut problems can have multiple causes

2013-05-13 00:34:02

Have you ever heard of a condition called mucous colitis? I am 88 and began to have attacks of this painful condition maybe 20 years ago. My primary care doctor said it might be from scar tissue from an earlier bowel resection. A gastroenterologist gave...

Students at Bristow Middle School in West Hartford raised more than $900 for the Take Steps for Crohn's and Colitis Walk through the student council's "Quarters for Crohn's and Colitis" campaign, according to an email from Principal Andrew Morrow.

2013-05-17 08:18:00

He began his career with four years in medical education, serving as account manager at Access Medical Group and then at Discovery International, both in Chicago.

2012-12-18 10:02:00

The microbiologist, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, studies how bacteria interact with their hosts, to positive and detrimental effects.

2012-10-01 14:47:00