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Ralph Alpher, 86; pioneering physicist in cosmic research overlooked for a Nobel Prize
Ralph Alpher, the "forgotten father of the Big Bang" whose calculations provided the theoretical underpinning of the theory but were ignored when it came time to pass out Nobel Prizes, died Sunday at an acute care facility in Austin, Texas.
He was 86 and...Tags: Princeton University, General Electric Company, Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Astronomy
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Drug, alcohol abuse study measures the high cost of under-treated addiction
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDRUG AND alcohol abuse sets people on a path toward heart disease, cancer and other chronic illnesses. A study in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment reports that hospital costs for this medical fallout can be substantial -- and could be avoided with...Tags: Health Insurance, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Health, Behavioral Conditions, Crimes
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School daze: the whirlwind tour
Special to The TimesEXHAUSTED parents, collapsed on sofas in college admissions offices, tell one another this urban legend while waiting for the next campus tour. It's about one family who took their teenager to visit a dozen schools in Pennsylvania in three days. They...Tags: Trinity College, Trips and Vacations, Prospect, Plastic Surgeons, Road Transportation
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D.C., 'Madam' have Friday night date
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersDeborah Jeane Palfrey ran her high-end sexual fantasy business in a way she carefully designed to keep the feds at bay. (She didn't take a year of law school for nothing.) In quintessential Washington style, the woman dubbed "the D.C. Madam" solicited...Tags: Television, Bank Robbery, National Government, AIDS, Entertainment
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Weighing too much or two little may increase risk of dementia
Special to The TimesWhat's new: Obesity appears to increase a person's chances of cognitive decline in old age -- but so, paradoxically, does weighing too little for one's height. The finding: People who maintain a healthy weight have a lower risk of dementia compared...Tags: Health, Alzheimer's Disease, Health and Safety at School, Education, Diseases and Illnesses
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Paul Lauterbur, 77; 'the father of MRI'
Times Staff WriterPhysicist Paul C. Lauterbur, who received a 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for giving physicians the ability to look inside the human body without using harmful radiation, died Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 77 and had been...Tags: Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Multiple Sclerosis, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), National Institutes of Health
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Drug Trials With a Dose of Doubt
Times Staff WriterOn Jan. 10, 2001, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. gathered its forces in a hotel conference room here with a clear-cut mission: Win a favorable vote for a new antifungal drug from a federal advisory committee -- a victory that would position the...Tags: Litigation and Regulation, Oncology, Companies and Corporations, National Government, University of Texas at Austin
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Millard Kaufman, 92, dies; Oscar-nominated screenwriter
Millard Kaufman, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of "Bad Day at Black Rock" and the co-creator of Mr. Magoo who waited until he was 90 to become a first-time novelist, has died. He was 92. Kaufman died of heart failure Saturday, two days after his...Tags: Television, MGM Inc., Cartoons, Health, Movies
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Hospital drug errors far from uncommon
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe case of actor Dennis Quaid's newborn twins, who were reportedly given 1,000 times the intended dosage of a blood thinner at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, underscores one of the biggest problems facing the healthcare industry: medication errors. At...Tags: Nursing, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health and Medical Professionals, Companies and Corporations, Entertainment
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Turkey's religious bent
In his Blowback, "My party is good for Turkey," Egemen Bagis does what can only be described as a hatchet job on Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Bagis, who is a foreign policy...Tags: Sex, Justice and Rights, Ankara (Turkey), Eyewear, Hamas
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Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan dies at 86
Grace Hartigan, an Abstract Expressionist painter once hailed as the leading female artist of her generation who later turned to teaching and led a Baltimore art school to national prominence, died Nov. 15 of liver failure at a nursing home in Timonium,...Tags: Andy Warhol, Museum of Modern Art, Willem de Kooning, Frank O'Hara, Greenwich Village
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Bill Stall dies at 71; Pulitzer-Prize winning editorial writer for The Times
William R. Stall, a longtime staff member of the Los Angeles Times who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2004, died Sunday at his home in Sacramento. He was 71.
Stall had been in failing health much of the year and died of...Tags: Jerry Brown, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Local Elections, National Government, Maryland General Assembly
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