Blood

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...

A day of reckoning for Lance Armstrong's fans

2012-10-16 00:00:00

Tim Loranger is a Los Angeles aviation attorney who was deeply moved by Lance Armstrong's story of beating cancer. The former Marine wears the Armstrong yellow wristband, races in an Armstrong hat and has raised thousands of dollars for Armstrong's cancer...

Screenings to help treat the right cancers

2012-09-13 00:00:00

Cancer is running out of places to hide. A new blood test can ferret out a single cancer cell tucked away among a billion healthy cells. Radiologists are using crystal-clear 3-D mammograms to find suspicious spots and lumps that they never could have seen...

Designer antibodies, nanoparticles, bacteria

2012-09-13 00:00:00

When you pop a pill in the future, don't expect old-fashioned results. Thanks to new advances in the lab and a deeper understanding of the human body, drugs are becoming highly personalized and precisely targeted. And the hope is they'll also be more...

Poor neighborhood in Aleppo is focus of battle for Syria

2012-08-03 17:37:00

ALEPPO, Syria — The car slams to a halt in front of the rebel field hospital on Shariyeh Street in the Salahuddin neighborhood, and a young man, his white pants drenched with blood, is carried haphazardly inside. But there is no doctor here....

The kind of salad dressing you use can make veggies healthier

2012-06-20 13:19:00

Dieters often say, “Hold the dressing,” but hold on: That might make those virtuous vegetables less nutritious, a study shows. Researchers at Purdue University found that some fat matters – and that the kind of fat matters too. For...

My Turn: PSA scare prompts reflection and education

2011-12-19 10:51:00

When my family doctor called five years ago with the news that my PSA levels had spiked, I hung up the phone and did what all of us do. I panicked. I thought, "So this is how I'm going to die." Then came the delayed second reaction: This can't be right!...

New Avastin tests add to confusion over use in breast cancer

2012-01-30 00:00:00

In November, following an emotional public hearing some months earlier, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew approval for the cancer drug Avastin for patients with metastatic breast cancer — the late-stage, incurable form of the disease. The...

Review: Jack White magnetic at the Mayan

2012-05-01 16:36:36

Frugal Fashion: Coco Rocha pretty in a peplum

2012-05-02 16:32:43

Health, quality of life may improve with exercise for cancer survivors

2012-01-31 16:18:00

Prostate cancer therapy doesn't increase cardiovascular deaths, study says

2011-12-06 13:03:00

bank). In these five core areas I perform testing on human body fluids that include blood, urine, sputum, and feces. The results from the testing performed makes up 70% of diagnostic decisions made by doctors.

2012-09-12 00:00:00

Don Morrison- Long time platelet donor- Lafayette Donor Center

2012-08-03 08:15:00

Could cancer cells (like this one) be detected and analyzed one day via tiny bits of tumor DNA floating around in the blood? Scientists are working hard on developing such a "liquid biopsy" method.

2012-05-30 16:45:00