Liver Cancer

Many with hepatitis C don't get needed follow-up tests, CDC says

2013-05-08 10:35:00

Half of all patients who have tested positive for hepatitis C have not had follow-up testing to see if they are still infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means many people are living with the disease and not...

Flip Wilson: The Persistence of Geraldine Jones

2013-05-05 10:50:00

In Sunday's Calendar (and online here), I review "Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar," a worthwhile new biography of the late comedian by Kevin Cook ("The Last Headbangers," "Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything"). The...

'Joe Turner's' actors share August Wilson's gift of gab

2013-05-05 05:30:00

Among the pleasures of seeing an August Wilson play, it's often said, is just listening to the people talk. As Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty has noted, Wilson stocks his scripts with "natural raconteurs" and lets them soar in...

Flip Wilson, a pioneer in prime time

2013-05-02 15:30:00

Though his time in the national spotlight amounted to only about a decade, Clerow "Flip" Wilson was one of the great comic voices of the 20th century, a compact fireball whose early-1970s NBC variety series embedded characters such as the Reverend Leroy...

PASSINGS: Bob Turley

2013-03-31 20:02:00

Bob Turley, 82, a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher who won the Cy Young Award in 1958 after rallying the New York Yankees past the Milwaukee Braves in the World Series, died of liver cancer Saturday in Atlanta, his family told the Baltimore Sun....

Court experts pass Sierra prison, pending improvements

2013-03-27 07:00:00

Federal experts on Tuesday gave a potentially passing grade to the inmate medical care provided at a California prison in Tuolumne County, the third state prison to get such a review, despite lapses in care and the suspected carbon monoxide poisoning...

Ed Miller dies at 87; longtime D.A. for San Diego County

2013-03-05 18:23:00

Ed Miller, who served as San Diego County district attorney for 24 years and, beginning in the scandal-ridden 1970s, was a major figure in reforming the city's political, business and law enforcement establishment, has died. He was 87. Miller died...

Ailing 'Star Trek' fan who got 'Into Darkness' sneak dies

2013-01-07 13:52:00

A dedicated "Star Trek" fan with terminal cancer was granted his last wish with a private screening of "Star Trek Into Darkness" before dying just days later on Jan. 4. Daniel Craft, one of the directors of the New York Asian Film Festival, was able...

Marvin Miller dies at 95; baseball union chief led push for free agency

2012-11-28 00:00:00

Nothing about Marvin Miller seemed feisty or controversial at first glance; the soft-spoken economist was a smallish man with gray hair and a tidy mustache. But as a union leader, it was Miller who took on baseball's establishment in the late 1960s,...

Beyond Chemotherapy

2012-10-23 16:37:00

Fighting cancer has never been easy. But new research — much of it being done in Southern California — is pointing toward a future in which patients will receive precisely targeted treatments that are more effective and have fewer side...

PASSINGS: John Durkin, Jackie Guthrie

2012-10-17 00:00:00

John Durkin Former U.S. senator from New Hampshire Former U.S. Sen. John Durkin, 76, a New Hampshire Democrat who won his seat in 1975 in one of the closest elections in Senate history, died Tuesday at Franklin Regional Hospital in Concord, N.H.,...

Henry Herx dies at 79; reviewed films from Catholic perspective

2012-08-21 00:00:00

Henry Herx, who for more than 30 years prepared the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' movie ratings and wrote reviews that were distributed by the Catholic News Service, has died. He was 79. Herx died Wednesday at his home in Ramsey, N.J., of...

Bob Turley, 82, a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher who won the Cy Young Award in 1958 after rallying the New York Yankees past the Milwaukee Braves in the World Series, died of liver cancer Saturday in Atlanta.

2013-03-31 19:27:13

Make-A-Wish Foundation recipient Dashiell Codd, 5, of Iowa, far right, with his mother Pam, father Brian, brother Sumner, 8, and family dog Cider at a beach house in Newport Beach on Thursda. Codd is currently battling liver cancer.

2013-02-21 00:00:00

The undisputed World Heavyweight Champion died of liver cancer in 2011. He was 67.

2012-09-05 08:37:09