A San Fernando Valley neurosurgeon who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and illegally prescribing large doses of a painkiller that led to his addict wife's overdose death was sentenced Friday to serve 180 days in Los Angeles County Jail.
A UCLA doctor who treated victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster said today radiation released
A San Fernando Valley neurosurgeon accused of murder for supplying his wife a lethal dose of a painkiller pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter and five counts of illegally prescribing drugs.
A Van Nuys physician was ordered Thursday to stand trial for rape after a 40-year-old woman testified that he attacked her on an examination table in his office.
A pediatrician said Monday that infants, because of their undeveloped sweat glands, can die in as little as 15 minutes if left inside a closed car on a hot day.
$866,000 to a medical doctor who claimed he was forced to resign by UC Irvine.
A Canoga Park teen-ager accused of strangling his mother and trying to kill his half brother suffers from brain damage that prevented him from fleeing an abusive and sexually provocative mother, a brain specialist testified Thursday.
Charges were dismissed Friday against an Irvine doctor who was one of seven people arrested in
In all his years as a family physician in Redlands, Calif., Dr.
Usually when the doctor isn't in for two weeks, he or she is vacationing in a tropical resort or brushing up on the golf swing.
A USC obstetrics and gynecology professor, who once worked for the federal Centers for Disease Control in abortion surveillance, says that the CDC has withdrawn its invitation for him to speak at a two-day Atlanta meeting beginning Tuesday to debate several intensely disputed proposals to expand AIDS antibody testing.
It was lunchtime and I was alone, away from home at a medical conference.
Texas El Paso basketball star Hernell (Jeep) Jackson used cocaine hours before he collapsed and died during a benefit game, a medical examiner said Thursday.
Some days, James Mosso can't decide if he's waiting to die or waiting to live.
The head of the state's medical advisory board on boxing complained Monday that the board "has been kept in the dark" about Sugar Ray Leonard's once-injured eye and said it would accept no responsibility if the fighter is similarly hurt again in next week's fight against Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
The so-called right-to-die case of Anna Hirth, a comatose 92-year-old La Mesa resident whose daughter wants her removed from life-sustaining medical care, went to trial Monday in Superior Court in El Cajon.
Police considered charges Tuesday against the owners of two pit bull terriers that killed a retired Veterans Administration hospital chief surgeon in a 25-minute attack that neighbors could not stop.
the days when the family doctor who made house calls vanished from the American scene.
Two people were arraigned on manslaughter charges Tuesday in the death of a retired doctor who was killed by their pit bull dogs.
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