Harvey R. Colten, 68, a Pediatric Immunologist, Is Dead
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Research led by Dr. Colten helped isolate a gene tied to respiratory failure in infants.
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LOS ANGELES - We could find out today if West Nile virus caused the death of a Claremont man last week. Sixty-two-year-old Walter Sheasby died Thursday at a Fontana hospital.
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Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a U.S.-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said Wednesday.
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A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an  elderly woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E. coli  infections raised to three the number of deaths related to a  nationwide health scare around fresh spinach, state health  officials said on Friday.
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By John F. Morrison, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 16--At age 26, Lena Thomas was deathly ill. The prognosis was not good, but she sent up a fervent prayer. She told God that if she were spared, she would devote the rest of her life to serving him.
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A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that prompted a nationwide consumer warning on fresh spinach and sickened at least 192 people.
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Emily, a 343-pound Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo, has died of cancer of the spleen at the age of 12. The tiger&#39;s keeper Ron Bernardi said Emily started vomiting
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A native of Red Oak, Iowa, who was a pioneer in astronomy who proposed the &quot;dirty snowball&quot; theory for the substance of comets, has died.
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State and local officials Tuesday said nine people have died in Florida because of Hurricane Frances. The following describes those deaths: - A 15-year-old grandson and a former son
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He died after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 80.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 2--GULFPORT -- The 6-year-old who collapsed on a county school bus on Thursday died from an abscess where two teeth had been removed from his lower jaw, authorities said.
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A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 192 people and killed one woman in a nationwide outbreak, health officials said Thursday.
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Nine children have died of flu this  season in Alabama, an unusually high number that has some  experts worried, a pediatrician said on Thursday.
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The Virginia medical examiner's office has concluded its investigation into the death of Kevin Mitchell , ruling that the former Washington Redskins linebacker died from heart disease and natural causes, a representative of the office said. Mitchell, 36, died in his sleep in April, shocking his...
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Idaho health officials confirmed  on Thursday a toddler who died last month from kidney failure  had been infected by the E. coli strain responsible for a  nationwide wave of food poisoning linked to tainted spinach.
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"I had no training or experience ... ."  Anita Roddick, founder of the international Body Shop cosmetics chain, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64.Roddick, who died at a hospital in Chichester, had revealed in February that she contracted hepatitis C through a blood transfusion while giving birth to a daughter in 1971. She made the announcement after being named head of the British charity Hepatitis C Trust.The business woman was lauded as the 'Queen of Green' for trailblazing business practices that sought to be environmentally friendly and won her renown in her native England and around the world. Read more
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By Stan Finger, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  May 30--An autopsy is scheduled today to determine why a 12-year-old boy died at Camp Hyde in southwest Sedgwick County on Tuesday.