City of Hope

'Big C' consultant Dr. Vijay Trisal

2013-05-04 00:00:00

Cathy Jamison lived four TV seasons with cancer, a stage 4 melanoma diagnosed at the start of "The Big C" on Showtime;�"The Big C: hereafter," a four-part series, airs Mondays. With Laura Linney in the lead role, Cathy's reactions, and those of her...

Patient is out of network, out of luck

2013-05-10 21:26:00

A worrisome abdominal pain drove Jalal Afshar to seek treatment last year at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente. The Pasadena resident and Kaiser member had lived for years with a rare condition known as Castleman's disease, which affects the lymph...

Circumcision study supports HIV theory

2013-04-15 23:16:00

Circumcision is known to reduce a man's risk of HIV infection by at least half, but scientists don't know why. A new study offers support for the theory that removing the foreskin deprives troublesome bacteria of a place to live, leaving the immune system...

City of Hope picks a longtime executive to be its next CEO

2013-02-21 06:00:00

City of Hope, a leading cancer hospital and medical research center, has tapped one of its veteran leaders to take over as chief executive in January. Dr. Michael Friedman, 69, said he plans to retire as CEO at year's end after 10 years at the helm....

Gov. Jerry Brown: Some information about early prostate cancer

2012-12-12 19:07:00

Gov. Jerry Brown is undergoing treatment for localized prostate cancer, according to a statement released by the governor’s office. In it, Brown’s UC San Francisco oncologist was quoted as saying �that "fortunately, this is early stage...

Ex-San Diego mayor who gambled away $1 billion remorseful

2013-02-14 20:13:08

Ex-mayor's lawyer ties her gambling addiction to brain tumor

2013-02-15 07:43:33

Susan Love, doctor/patient

2013-02-13 00:00:00

And now, she is the patient. For decades, as a surgeon, researcher, professor and medical celebrity of sorts, Susan Love has led the charge against breast cancer and for women's health. She served on President Clinton's cancer advisory board. She set up a...

Rose Parade 2013: float list and route map

2013-01-01 07:42:58

Newtown shooting brings back pain for L.A. Jewish center victims

2012-12-17 06:23:20

How my boyfriend took me for a ride

2012-06-23 00:00:00

I was publicly dumped after being with someone for years. My next mistake — let's call him the ex-con — was standing on the sidelines, waiting and watching the sordid drama play out. He was friends with my friends: trust fund babies, college...

The Cutting Edge

2012-10-23 16:30:00

When Dr. Amir Abolhoda recently performed robot-assisted lung cancer surgery at UC Irvine Medical Center — the first procedure of its kind in Orange County — it marked the latest leap in the fast-evolving field of robotics. The minimally...

Anesthesia is administered to a surgical patient at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif. A team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston says it has had been able to use EEGs to identify signatures of loss and recovery of consciousness under the anesthesia drug propofol.

2013-03-04 00:00:00

City of Hope has named Robert Stone its next chief executive, effective Jan. 1, 2014.

2013-02-20 13:15:22

Dr. Timothy Wilson (center), head of the urology department at City of Hope, stands with a da Vinci surgical robot

2012-10-23 00:00:00