Liver Disease

Oklahoma dental patients diagnosed with hepatitis C, HIV

2013-04-18 14:38:00

Dozens of Oklahoma dental patients have been diagnosed with hepatitis C and at least one case of HIV, state health officials said Thursday, four weeks after finding a multitude of health code violations, including rusty tools, at a dental practice in...

San Bernardino grandfather fatally shot while walking home

2013-03-18 07:13:59

Letters: The risks of being obese

2013-01-08 00:00:00

Re "Why we diet," Opinion, Jan. 4 Abigail Saguy intermingles the social and medical aspects of obesity. Certainly, discriminating against someone because of body habitus is inexcusable. However, ignoring the adverse health consequences of obesity is...

Roberto Bolano's 'Woes of the True Policeman' a sketchy work

2012-11-15 13:51:00

-------------------- Woes of the True Policeman A Novel Roberto Bola�o, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 256 pp., $25 -------------------- An early death isn't the end for a writer. Like a special dispensation from...

In Mexicali, a haven for broken lives

2012-05-26 21:04:00

Mario Ramos stirs a pot of beans with a bent spatula as the men crowd into the kitchen, the ragged line stretching out the splintered doorway. Years ago, Ramos, 45, grilled up pricey seafood in a tiki-themed restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway in...

Former gang member convicted in 1998 Santa Ana killing

2012-06-13 21:37:01

Hooked on acid reflux treatment?

2011-08-23 08:29:00

A welter of medications sold over the counter and�by prescription�can spell fast relief from the churning�discomfort of acid reflux and heartburn, and the class of drugs known as proton-pump inhibitors�has grown powerfully popular with Americans. But...

Gene R. Summers dies at 83; architect renovated L.A. Biltmore

2011-12-22 00:00:00

Gene R. Summers, an architect and developer who undertook the first major renovation of the historic Biltmore Hotel, reviving interest in downtown Los Angeles and helping to spark its revitalization, has died. He was 83. Summers, who retired to the...

Don Cornelius' connection with Walter Payton

2012-02-01 16:33:55

Walter Payton battled drugs, suicidal thoughts, new book says

2011-09-29 16:33:48

Coming soon in the medical arsenal against cancer: vaccines

2009-07-06 00:00:00

It's a deceptively simple idea: What if doctors could recruit the body's own immune system to fight cancer? The complexities of the immune system have kept this from becoming reality, until now. Three cancer vaccines -- for prostate cancer, melanoma and...

Eugene Fodor dies at 60; violin virtuoso

2011-03-05 00:00:00

Eugene Fodor, a swashbuckling violin virtuoso who was a media darling of classical music in the 1970s but whose substance abuse fractured a fairytale career, has died. He was 60. Fodor died of liver disease Feb. 26 at his home in Arlington, Va., said his...

Donald M. Jensen is director of the Center for Liver Diseases at University of Chicago Medicine.

2013-01-28 09:51:25

The football great died of bile-duct cancer brought on by an autoimmune liver disease in 1999. He was 45.

2012-09-05 08:12:35

Rev. Jose Landaverde, left, comforts Elfego Arroyo, as Arroyo weeps during his plea for a liver transplant at a rally outside the University of Illinois Hospital. Brothers Elfego and Lorenzo Arroyo each suffers from a deadly liver disease.

2012-06-13 00:00:00