I was glad to read a clarification of President Reagan's instructions to Secretary of Health and Human Services Otis R.
"are not lepers" was a grievous injustice to sufferers from Hansen's disease (leprosy), and a gross misrepresentation of the facts.
The Times' article reporting the death of Msgr.
What is a dreadful disease comparable almost to cancer? The answer is loneliness.
What makes a disease epidemic? The very definition implies panic. There is no set number of victims.
The United States is spreading the bacterial gastrointestinal disease salmonella around the world by exporting small pet turtles.
Labor began with my second child, while talking to my mother on the telephone, suddenly my water ruptured.
I should like to expand on some points raised by James Flanigan's excellent Dec. 2 column, "Perot Sounded Alarm but GM Likes Its Sleep."
Regarding Louisville Coach Brian O'Hara's comments on the Alemany-Louisville girls basketball game: If the only way Louisville (with two All-Americans) can beat a team by three points is when an inexperienced team "chokes," then he isn't saying much for his own coaching or his own team.
As I read Ginger Jacobs' touching and well written article on the above subject, I too wanted to scream, cry and mourn.
) "Only Alzheimer's: I Want to Scream, to Cry, to Mourn . . . " I was raised by my grandmother who, like her father, suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
I want to thank the Los Angeles Times for the story about ankylosing spondylitis and myself ("Dealing With the Back Pain With a Funny Name" by Pat B.
Services and research money for schizophrenia, which afflicts 1.6 million Americans, should be dramatically increased to give the illness the same attention received by other major diseases such as cancer and muscular dystrophy, a Senate panel was told Thursday.
Q: Last fall I failed to apply a disease-control fungicide to my peach and nectarine trees.
Product labels warning against the use of aspirin for children suffering from chicken pox and flu will begin appearing in stores this summer but an advertising campaign will start next week to alert the public to the link between the drug and the often-fatal Reye's syndrome, the government announced Wednesday.
transmitted disease that afflicts more than 1 million Americans and might be linked with cervical cancer.
Cardiomyopathy.
I applaud Money's letter, saying alcoholism is the ultimate effect of a series of purposive decisions, not a disease.
Eight city workers are being treated for symptoms of Legionnaires disease that they apparently contracted while repairing a broken water line.
MEMORABLE DOGS: AN ANTHOLOGY, edited by Benjamin T. Spencer (Harper & Row: $16.95).