Despite the intravenous tube running to his forehead beneath a fuzzy crown of dark hair, the 12-day-old Rojas boy was one of the healthiest-looking babies in the neonatal ward at UC Irvine Medical Center on Friday.
plays an important role in making an individual susceptible to heart disease.
SmithKline Diagnostics Inc. announced Wednesday that it was recalling 90,000 bottles of a chemical used in diagnosing colon and rectal diseases because it may have produced false negative test results.
Treatment of heart and circulatory disease, the country's main cause of death, will cost an
I was sorry to see the article by Keyes Beech (Opinion, Jan. 5), "Is There a Cure for the 'British Disease?'
Researchers at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and the USC School of Medicine say they can now identify many people who have inherited a defective gene known to be responsible for retinoblastoma, a childhood cancer of the eye.
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A new center to help victims of Alzheimer's disease and their families opens today at the Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center, 1530 Wilshire Blvd.
feel, as a member of the terrified and often misinformed public, I have once again been victimized by half-truths regarding the heinous disease, AIDS.
The first major outbreak of legionnaire's disease in Britain was confirmed Friday after 12 cases were identified.
Authorities found legionnaire's disease bacteria in the air-conditioning system of a suburban
"Bioethics and Alzheimer's Disease," a daylong conference on the moral, legal and medical issues
Money's intemperate letter asserts that alcoholism is a matter of choice rather than a disease.
A major mental health problem among the European elite in the Middle Ages was lovesickness, says a Stanford University expert who thinks more research on the subject would be helpful.
Hard-charging Charles Peddle, who had the go-get-'em to launch five businesses and the vision to inspire hundreds of employees, loves the grand gesture.
A group of researchers in San Diego has successfully transplanted foreign genes into liver cells, raising the possibility of eventually treating hemophilia and other genetic disorders of the liver through the emerging techniques of gene therapy.
55 to 75 for a study on a drug treatment for the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
We read with interest the article (Nov. 21) regarding Dr. E. Fuller Torrey's testimony to a U.S.
Job discrimination and problems with family and friends pose serious obstacles for millions of Americans who have survived cancer, according to experts speaking at an American Cancer Society conference.
Weekends are playtime for most Americans, yet television is often at its most serious then with an abundance of public-affairs shows.