Relatives of Alzheimer's disease patients face an escalating chance of developing the condition as
Until September, when he began his walk from Minnesota to California, Michel Monnot was an anonymous man with a mostly anonymous disease.
Two patients at University of Iowa Hospitals developed legionnaire's disease last week, prompting a
A low-fat diet can reduce the risk of heart disease in men by more than 50%, a two-nation study
Artificial heart transplant recipients, the late Dr.
Four years ago, Stephanie Robeck was a gravely ill 12-year-old, living a life filled with doctors, hospitals and blood transfusions.
Howard Jarvis, whose Proposition 13 produced the most famous taxpayers' revolt since the Boston Tea Party, died Tuesday night at Los Angeles' Midway Hospital.
"I was helping to set the table. My grandmother hovered like a pale, frail moth at my elbow.
Fern Schiff was not worried about the health of her 14-year-old daughter, Judy, when she sent her to summer camp in August, 1979.
U.S. intelligence reports say that Philippines President Ferdinand E.
In 1906, an English physician published one of the first reports of death by asbestos, writing of "spicules of asbestos" in the lungs of a 33-year-old factory worker who died of pulmonary fibrosis.
Thirty people showed symptoms of Legionnaires' disease after attending a dinner at a suburban
his battle against Lou Gehrig's disease, and he is taking his search for answers to the National Football League.
An interdisciplinary, undergraduate class on sexually transmitted diseases, apparently the first such course in the nation, will be offered at Stanford University this winter, university officials said Friday.
A disease that is a leading cause of meningitis in infants may not be as contagious as previously believed, a new study says.
Irvine-based Disease Detection International Inc., which went public Jan 22., reported a net loss
disease of the ghettos, the minorities and the mentally ill with sociopathic and addictive personalities.
It is one of public health's most revered articles of faith: Heart disease in the United States
Bad gums, responsible for more than 70% of all tooth loss, are not just inherited.