transmitted disease that afflicts more than 1 million Americans and might be linked with cervical cancer.
Cardiomyopathy.
I was very much impressed by the letter of Jess Money, "Alcoholism is the Result of a Conscious Decision."
Given the narrowness of Jess Money's definition of disease (Letters, Sept. 21), it's not surprising that it excludes alcoholism.
The bizarre behavior and frenetic painting of Vincent Van Gogh, the Dutch Impressionist who cut off his ear, probably resulted from an abnormality of the brain that has only recently been recognized, a doctor says.
Federal officials who destroyed 2,000 birds at a warehouse where exotic Newcastle disease was found
People who drink alcoholic beverages in moderate amounts are less likely to suffer coronary heart disease than teetotalers, a study showed.
Irvine-based Disease Detection International said it raised $5.1 million in its recently completed initial public offering of 750,000 units at $6 a unit.
Claiming that she "does not suffer from any such disease," singer Dionne Warwick has filed a $30
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 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.
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
Treatment of heart and circulatory disease, by far the country's main cause of death, will cost an
bear and a pig, the national Centers for Disease Control reported last week.
Money's intemperate letter asserts that alcoholism is a matter of choice rather than a disease.
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.
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.