Pancreas

All about billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, potential AEG bidder

2012-09-19 10:41:00

The whispers started right away: Was Patrick Soon-Shiong, a Los Angeles billionaire-doctor-philanthropist-businessman, on the shortlist of potential buyers for entertainment giant AEG? Soon after the company put itself on the block Tuesday, Soon-Shiong...

Camel milk may help control diabetes, researchers say

2012-08-10 09:43:36

That bad attitude? Blame the birth month

2012-01-30 00:00:00

If you don't believe in horoscopes, you're in step with science. But that's not the same as saying the season of your birth cannot affect your fate. Hundreds of studies, published in peer-reviewed journals, have suggested that the month a person is born...

Diabetes: FDA provides guidance on artificial pancreas

2011-12-01 15:03:00

Potatoes can add plenty to waistline

2011-06-23 00:00:00

Public Enemy No. 1 in America's battle of the bulge isn't cupcakes, soda or double bacon cheeseburgers. It's the simple potato, according to Harvard University researchers. Daily consumption of an extra serving of spuds — French fries, crispy...

Cystic fibrosis drug ivacaftor offers patients new hope

2011-11-02 16:51:00

All her life, Lindsay Shipp knew that she was dying. As a baby, she would cry after eating, and salt collected on her forehead. The diagnosis was cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic disease that, at the time, meant a life expectancy of 18 years. The...

Steve Jobs buried in Alta Mesa among other technologists

2011-10-11 21:36:11

Steve Jobs biography: His thoughts on Android, cancer, Bill Gates

2011-10-21 16:35:38

Rosalyn Yalow dies at 89; Nobel winner helped revolutionize medical diagnostics

2011-06-06 00:00:00

Physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of a medical diagnostic test that revolutionized patient care and led to a new understanding of diabetes and a host of other diseases, died May 30 in...

Duff McKagan: Guns N' Roses bassist may make you think 'beer'

2011-09-14 16:34:29

'House' recap: The elephant in the room

2011-05-24 04:36:27

PASSINGS: Michael Gough, Murray Warmath, James C. Tyree, Marty Marion, John Kronenberg

2011-03-18 00:00:00

Michael Gough Actor played butler in 'Batman' movies Michael Gough, 94, a British actor best known for playing Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred in a series of "Batman" movies, died Thursday at home in England, his former wife Anneke Wills said through her...

Chocolate and other types of candy are toxic to dogs. Every Christmas � and other holidays when candy abounds � pet owners dash to veterinary emergency-care rooms after their dogs scrounge around and gobble chocolate.

2012-12-13 00:00:00

A teddy bear display calls Grace McComas, seen in a photo, a "hero," as she was an organ donor whose liver, kidneys and pancreas helped three others.

2012-04-13 00:00:00

Bret M. Schipper, M.D., a surgical oncologist, has joined The Hospital of Central Connecticut�s medical staff in New Britain. Schipper specializes in robotic surgery and surgical care for patients with colon, liver, pancreas and gastric cancers.

2012-02-24 00:00:00