Latest Health Articles for Heart Disease

• Obituaries in the news

  article 2008-12-06  |  Author: The Associated Press
  Forrest J AckermanLOS ANGELES (AP) — Forrest J Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent and magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term "sci-fi," died Thursday. He was 92.Ackerman died of heart failure at his Los Angeles ......

• Obituaries in the news

  article 2008-11-26  |  Author: The Associated Press
  Francis GrevembergNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Francis Grevemberg, a former state police superintendent who led a crackdown against illegal gambling in Louisiana in the 1950s, died Monday. He was 94.Ronnie Jones, with Louisiana State Police, said Grevemberg died of respiratory problems that developed after his surgery last week for a broken ......

• Obituaries in the news

  article 2008-11-23  |  Author: The Associated Press
  Augustus "Gus" BarberPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Augustus "Gus" Barber, a former meat cutter who built a frozen-food business that provided jobs to thousands of immigrants, died Friday. He was 87.The founder of Barber Foods died at Maine Medical Center after going into cardiac arrest, relatives said.The son of ......

• Obituaries in the news

  article 2008-11-09  |  Author: The Associated Press
  Mieczyslaw RakowskiWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poland's last communist-era party chairman and prime minister, died Friday, Polish media and officials said. He was 81.Polish media reported Saturday that Rakowski died after a long battle with cancer. A number of Polish officials, including former President Aleskander Kwasniewski, appeared ......

• Prosecutor: Doctor tried to hasten patient's death

  article 2008-11-04  |  Author: Greg Risling
  A transplant surgeon ordered excessive amounts of morphine and a sedative to speed a patient's death so he could harvest the organs, a prosecutor said Monday as the doctor's trial started.Dr. Hootan Roozrokh faces one count of felony dependent adult abuse for allegedly prescribing too much medication to Ruben Navarro."The ......

• $894 million deal ends pain of Pfizer's lawsuits

  article 2008-10-18  |  Author: Linda A. Johnson
  Drug giant Pfizer Inc. has reached an $894 million deal to settle the bulk of the lawsuits over its withdrawn pain reliever Bextra, following the lead of rival Merck & Co., which is spending five times as much to settle Vioxx suits.The Pfizer agreement also would end lawsuits over its ......

• Music photographer William Claxton dies at 80

  article 2008-10-13  |  Author: Staff
  William Claxton, a celebrated photographer who worked with such entertainers as Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra and who helped establish the organization that runs the Grammy Awards, has died. He was 80.Claxton died Saturday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications stemming from congestive heart ......

• Half-ton Mexican man dies after pleading for help

  article 2008-10-08  |  Author: Mark Walsh
  A 450-kilogram (990-pound), bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem died Tuesday of heart failure, his family said.Emergency officials had to knock down Jose Luis Garza's bedroom wall and put him in the back of a friend's pickup truck as he ......

• Smoking riskier to women's hearts than men's

  article 2008-09-03  |  Author: Maria Cheng
  women who don't smoke, Norwegian doctors reported in a study presented ......

• Cancer cluster confirmed in northeast Pennsylvania

  article 2008-08-26  |  Author: Michael Rubinkam
  Nearly a year after federal epidemiologists first sounded the alarm over a cluster of rare blood cancers in northeastern Pennsylvania, their research has zeroed in on a hardscrabble region 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia that is home to several Superfund sites and a power plant fired by waste coal.The U.S. ......