Latest Health Articles for Heart Disease

• Pulitzer Prize-winning NC newspaper publisher dies

  article 2009-09-17  |  Author: Staff
  W. Horace Carter, a North Carolina newspaper publisher whose crusades against the Ku Klux Klan earned a Pulitzer Prize, has died. He was 88.Mitchell Ward, director of Inman Funeral Home in Tabor (TAY'-ber) City, confirmed that Carter died Wednesday at New Hanover Regional Medical Center. Carter suffered a ...

• Jamaican dancehall innovator dies in NY at 47

  article 2009-09-07  |  Author: Staff
  Wycliffe Johnson, a keyboardist and producer known as "Steely" who helped to steer Jamaican music for nearly two decades and to modernize the dancehall genre, has died. He was 47.Johnson died Tuesday at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in Patchogue, N.Y., following a heart attack, longtime friend and fellow producer ......

• Hong Kong reports 4th swine flu-related death

  article 2009-08-11  |  Author: Staff
  Hong Kong health authorities say a 54-year-old man infected with swine flu has died but it was unclear what caused his death as he was also suffering from chronic lung disease.The Kwong Wah Hospital said in a statement late Monday that the man suffered from a chest infection with shortness ......

• Husband denies alcoholism in NY wrong-way crash

  article 2009-08-07  |  Author: Frank Eltman
  She couldn't have been drunk and stoned. Her husband had never seen her intoxicated before. And there were absolutely no marital problems that could have sent her over the edge.In an anguished, sometimes angry news conference, Daniel Schuler refused to accept an autopsy report that showed his wife had the ......

• HK reports 3rd swine flu-related death

  article 2009-08-01  |  Author: Staff
  Hong Kong has reported its third swine flu-related death after a 58-year-old man who died of a heart disease, sought hospital treatment on ......

• 5 officers hurt, 2 suspects dead in NJ shootout

  article 2009-07-17  |  Author: Victor Epstein And David Porter
  A running shootout that erupted during a police stakeout of two armed robbery suspects ended Thursday morning with them dead and five officers wounded by gunfire, two of them critically.The shootout began in the street about 5:15 a.m. and ended when SWAT officers fought their way into a third-floor apartment ......

• Obituaries in the news

  article 2009-06-07  |  Author: The Associated Press
  Bernard BarkerMIAMI (AP) — Bernard Leon Barker, one of the five Watergate burglars whose break-in led to America's biggest political scandal, died Friday in suburban Miami. He was 92.The Cuban-born former CIA operative, who also participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion, died at his home after being taken to ......

• Mexican genomes show wide diversity

  article 2009-05-12  |  Author: Randolph E. Schmid
  The most detailed look yet at the genetics of Mexicans is showing significant diversity, a finding that could help point the way to customized drugs and identification of people prone to certain diseases.Researchers led by Dr. Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez studied the genes of 300 mestizos — people of mixed Indian and ......

• Obituaries in the news

  article 2009-04-18  |  Author: The Associated Press
  Ed BlakeSWANSEA, Ill. (AP) — Ed Blake, an Illinoisan whose 15 seasons of professional baseball included time spent with the Cincinnati Reds and Kansas City Athletics, died Wednesday. He was 83.Blake died at Rosewood Care Center after a long illness, Belleville alderman Catherine Kreher said Friday.Blake was 17 when he ......

• Diabetics skimp on lifesaving care in recession

  article 2009-04-13  |  Author: Linda A. Johnson
  Diabetics are increasingly risking life and limb by cutting back on — or even going without — doctor visits, insulin, medicines and blood-sugar testing as they lose income and health insurance in the recession, an Associated Press analysis has found.Doctors have seen a drop in regular appointments with ......