Leukemia

Justice for Carousel

2013-05-16 13:56:00

Royalene Fernandez thought her dream had come true when she bought her house on Panama Avenue in Carson. Palm trees lined the street just a few miles from the beach. Royalene and her husband had saved every dime to buy their home and were thrilled when...

Genomes provide clues for treating leukemia, endometrial cancers

2013-05-01 13:32:00

Efforts to sequence the human genome have revealed genetic risk for disease, and taught us about our early ancestors. Now, efforts to sequence the genomes of cancer cells -- to pinpoint the changes that occur in cancer cells' DNA when a person has the...

Robert Guerrero knows pressure, and it's not fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

LAS VEGAS — Robert Guerrero is from Gilroy, California's garlic capital of the world. His greatest fight stages have been in San Jose and Ontario. And his most compelling pre-fight publicity stop was on evangelist Pat Robertson's "700 Club."...

Live discussion: Will Floyd Mayweather Jr. remain undefeated?

2013-05-03 10:35:00

� Join Times boxing writer Lance Pugmire at 1 p.m. today for a live discussion of the upcoming Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero fight. Guerrero is a heavy underdog in the fight against the undefeated Mayweather, but as Pugmire wrote Thursday, that's...

Dave Gold dies at 80; entrepreneur behind 99 Cents Only chain

2013-04-26 22:16:00

Dave Gold launched his 99 Cents Only Stores empire in Los Angeles at age 50 after mulling over the idea for over a decade. The thrifty entrepreneur took the dollar store concept and introduced it to middle-class and upscale neighborhoods. In the...

Poll: Should doctors tell terminally ill patients they're dying?

2013-04-26 07:00:00

As my colleague Melissa Healy noted Thursday, a British medical journal recently invited doctors who specialize in end-of-life care to debate whether patients should be told that they're terminally ill. Two London-based palliative care doctors argued in...

Study: Hookah no safer than cigarettes, just differently dangerous

2013-04-19 14:05:00

Cigarette smoking may have earned a reputation as an unhealthy, cancer-causing pastime, but water pipes seem to have largely evaded the stigma. Now, new research shows that water pipes may simply be dangerous in slightly different ways, according to a...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar continues to promote a healthy, active lifestyle

2013-04-12 08:00:00

Over the weekend, Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar led a processional on a one-mile walk outside of the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Abdul-Jabbar's Final Four Dome Dribble Fueled by Powerade was part of his campaign to encourage fun, healthy and...

Living near traffic linked to increased cancer risk in children

2013-04-09 15:20:00

Researchers have already uncovered worrying signs that exposure to traffic – and the vehicle emissions that come with it – can increase a child’s risk of developing asthma and autism. Now comes evidence that it may make children more...

Fukushima nuclear disaster adds only small health risks, WHO says

2013-02-28 15:21:00

The 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami that triggered a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station has resulted in only a small increase in lifetime cancer risks for people living nearby, and an even smaller...

Don't cut lifesaving dollars

2013-04-02 00:00:00

It would be fair to say that Patient 5 owes his life to medical research. Also known as David Aponte, he was the headlining success story from a recent clinical trial at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The trial tested a new approach — in...

Indian court ruling hailed as victory for generic drugs

2013-04-01 12:42:00

The Indian Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Swiss drug company cannot patent a medicine used to treat a rare form of leukemia, in a decision with global implications for generic drugs. The court ruled that Glivec, the drug developed by Novartis, was...

Jaidyn Feickert, center, recently received the Courage Award from the Aberdeen Kiwanis for overcoming leukemia. With Jaidyn are her parents, Toni Feickert, left, and Justin Feickert.

2013-05-19 15:14:00

Franklin County commissioner Robert Thomas, right, does a fist bump with his grandson Aiden Brown, held by his daughter Bobbie Brown, at conclusion of press conference Friday. He announced he expects to continue his board duties despite a battle against a rare blood cancer.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

New discoveries about tumor genes could one day help doctors tailor treatments for patients with acute myeloid leukemia and endometrial cancer.

2013-05-01 11:49:17