Heart Attack

MTA bus driver killed in crash 'looked after everyone else first'

2013-06-15 21:47:00

Olivia Gamboa began her route through downtown Los Angeles in the pre-dawn darkness. After 13 years as a bus driver with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, she could have chosen any shift. She opted to drive at 5 a.m., as most of the city slept,...

L.A. Film Fest: 'Winter in the Blood' depicts life on reservation

2013-06-14 13:36:00

Filmmakers Alex and Andrew Smith were thrilled but stressed Thursday afternoon as the debut of their passion project, "Winter in the Blood," about life on an Indian reservation, rapidly approached. The Montana natives were close family friends with...

Comedian Anthony Anderson gets serious about his health after diabetes diagnosis

2013-06-15 00:00:00

Fear can be a powerful motivator, at least at first. Actor and comedian Anthony Anderson understands that sticking to an exercise regimen and improving eating habits takes more than a disquieting conversation with a physician to sustain motivation. I'...

Matters of the Heart

2013-06-13 12:55:00

A recent study shows that when it comes to matters of the heart, there are indeed differences between the sexes. Researchers combed through a database of more than 1 million heart attack cases and discovered that women, especially those under the age of...

Istanbul's Taksim Square quiet after chaotic, violent night

2013-06-12 06:18:00

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- A somber mood hangs over Gezi Park. Just 24 hours ago protesters danced to reggae music and studied together for university exams, sharing food and drink, an array of political views represented as demonstrators engaged in lively...

M. Jeanne Bartelt dies at 89; teacher helped revise state PE standards

2013-06-11 17:51:00

M. Jeanne Bartelt, a physical education teacher who was instrumental in efforts to revise statewide PE standards for California schoolchildren, died May 22 in Sacramento. She was 89. The cause was a heart attack, said her partner, Sandra Archer. A...

Disparity in generic drug prices is a bitter pill to swallow

2013-06-11 00:00:00

Generic prescription drugs have to meet exacting standards for ingredients and quality, which you'd think would make them uniformly priced at pharmacies. But that, of course, isn't the case. Generic drug prices can be all over the map, depending on...

Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington killed in car crash

2013-06-06 07:11:00

Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington was killed in a single-car crash in Palm Springs on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. Covington, 67, a Palm Springs resident, was driving alone when his coupe left the road at a curve in South Belardo Road...

FDA panel recommends continued Avandia sales, with restrictions

2013-06-06 17:06:00

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market with a slate of restrictions on its use, and suggested that although evidence of the drug's safety problems may have been overblown,...

Jean Stapleton dies at 90; was Edith Bunker in 'All in the Family'

2013-06-01 17:40:00

Jean Stapleton, the actress who endeared herself to viewers in the 1970s as Edith Bunker, whose sudden bursts of truth regularly cut through her husband Archie's bluster on the groundbreaking television series "All in the Family," has died. She was 90....

Jean Stapleton: Actress who played Edith Bunker was no 'dingbat'

2013-06-01 16:35:00

Jean Stapleton won worldwide fame as Edith Bunker, the cheerfully clueless wife of bigoted Archie Bunker on the groundbreaking series "All in The Family." Her resume also included later portrayals as� Mother Goose, the Fairy Godmother and Mrs. Piggle-...

Review: 'Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic' a keen look at gifted comic

2013-05-31 05:00:00

Richard Pryor died in 2005 at the age of 65 from a heart attack related to multiple sclerosis. The unexpected thing, given his life and habits and health, was not that he died so young but that he lived so long. Marina Zenovich's enlightening...

Deputies Joseph Brownlee, Gary Schubert and Robert Schmidt saved a person who had a heart attack at the airport.

2013-06-13 14:48:00

Deputy Jeffrey Fromm helped save a driver at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport who had a heart attack and drove into a pole.

2013-06-13 12:49:00

Orange County sheriff's helicopter pilot Craig Heber, died July 21, 2010. He suffered a fatal heart attack after responding to a home alarm earlier in the day. Heber, 48, was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and had been employed by the Sheriff's Office since 1988.

2013-05-29 07:13:00