Stroke

Helen Brush Jenkins dies at 94; pioneering photojournalist

2013-06-16 10:28:00

With a click of the camera pressed against her forehead, the photojournalist broke ground in a way her male colleagues never could. Two weeks later in 1953, Life magazine printed the picture she took moments after giving birth at a Los Angeles hospital....

U.S. Open live updates: Phil Mickelson takes third-round lead

2013-06-15 16:55:00

When everyone else wilted, Phil Mickelson hung on. Coming down Merion Golf Club’s devious home stretch, Mickelson played a nervy game and, despite a finishing bogey, grabbed a one-stroke lead at the U.S. Open heading into Sunday. The fact that...

Brain waves play Pong, but not for long

2013-06-12 06:05:00

A quadriplegic has used thought to make a robotic hand feed her chocolate. A monkey moved a computer cursor using brain waves. But how the brain “learns” to control something without sending the signal through a spine and nerves remains a...

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...

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....

Influential jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller dies at 57

2013-05-29 11:23:00

Underrated yet influential jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller died in Allentown, Pa., on Wednesday after suffering a stroke. He was 57. A member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the 1980s as well as a sideman to Tony Williams, Wallace Roney, Kenny Garrett...

Taylor Mead dies at 88; underground film legend and bohemian artist

2013-05-11 12:51:00

Taylor Mead, an underground cinema legend whose comic charm and sense of the surreal inspired Andy Warhol and other seminal figures in the alternative film world, died Wednesday in Denver. He was 88. A fixture of bohemian New York who was also a poet...

Matt Kuchar leads Colonial golf after three rounds

2013-05-25 19:28:00

Matt Kuchar finished a long Saturday at Colonial exhausted and still a stroke in front. "This morning feels like a day ago," Kuchar said. "It's hard to believe it's the same day." After making a 12-foot birdie putt at the par-three 16th hole, the same...

Al Fritz dies at 88; Schwinn exec developed the Sting-Ray bike

2013-05-09 19:26:00

For much of the 1960s and the early 1970s, no suburban streetscape would have been complete without them: A squadron of kids clutching sky-high handlebars on low-slung bikes in eye-popping, hot-rod colors. Equipped with a curved banana seat, the Schwinn...

How a 'million-dollar patient' got off a medical merry-go-round

2013-05-05 16:22:00

For more than two decades, Wanda Remo has battled one illness after another. Asthma, chronic lung disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, depression, chronic pain, strokes. Specialists treat her lungs, her heart and her joints. Her...

E.L. Konigsburg dies at 83; award-winning children's book author

2013-04-22 14:14:00

E.L. Konigsburg, who was one of the few children's authors to twice win the Newbery Medal, died Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va. She was 83. Konigsburg had a stroke the week before she died, said her son Paul. She won the Newbery Medal, one...

Sam Jameson dies at 76; former longtime L.A. Times correspondent

2013-04-19 19:30:00

Sam Jameson, a former longtime Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent with a deep knowledge of and close personal affinity for Japan, his professional and personal base for half a century, died Friday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 76. The cause of...

The Spot, which stands for Speech Physical Occupational Therapy, is used as a rehabilitation device at West View Rehabilitation Center for patients who have had major surgery or a stroke.

2013-01-19 00:00:00

The official caption here: "John Fox reacts to a call." Our caption here: "John Fox is about to have a stroke."

2012-09-20 00:00:00

Mark Catalina, an acclaimed artist who had a stroke in 2006, is still at work on in his New Britain studio.

2012-08-29 00:00:00