Liver Disease

Stephen Baxter, travel agent

2012-10-20 12:17:05

Stephen Baxter, a retired travel agent, died of liver disease Oct. 2 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Mays Chapel resident was 66. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Samuel Baxter and Lola Annen Baxter. He lived on Barclay Street and in Anneslie. He...

Baby boomers unknowingly infected with hepatitis C

2012-07-06 16:10:00

When Alan Shackelford's ankles would swell up, he brushed it off as another sign of getting older — only to find out it was a symptom of something much worse. The 59-year-old Windsor Mill man was shocked when his doctor recently diagnosed him...

Baby boomers need hepatitis C testing

2012-08-16 12:10:00

All baby boomers should get tested for hepatitis C, the virus that can lead to liver disease, cancer and death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One in 30 boomers is infected and most don't know -- read about that in this...

Keeping your sugar in check

2012-07-31 16:09:00

Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post to The Baltimore Sun's health blog Picture of Health (baltimoresun.com/pictureofhealth). This week, Mindy Athas weighs in on sugar. The term sugar is used for a...

Treating menopause symptoms

2012-01-11 12:41:00

Every woman will experience menopause, some in the normal course of aging and some before. It can bring on a host of symptoms in addition to hot flashes. But there are things that women can do, from improving their diet and exercising to finding the right...

Progress in Hepatitis C research

2011-09-08 00:00:00

Hepatitis C has long been a problem with a low rate of cure. But new drug therapies are in use and others are on the horizon, according to Dr. Paul J. Thuluvath, chief of gastroenterology at Mercy Medical Center and the medical director of the Institute...

Bay group warns of swimming after storms

2012-05-25 09:35:00

Swimmers should avoid contact with tidal and fresh water for 48 hours after a big rain storm this summer, warns the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The precaution is suggested by state and county health departments, but foundation officials believe it’s...

From Sun Magazine: Grayson Gilbert's divine strength

2011-05-19 03:58:00

May 19, 2011 The boy approached the marble statue, gazing up — miles up, as he remembers it now — into the face of the benevolent figure it depicted. It was May 8, 1996, and Grayson Gilbert, 6, had a lot on his mind. A few months earlier,...

How to treat minor animal bites, scratches

2011-03-24 00:00:00

Animal bites can be serious. They can injure the skin and bones and joints, and the damage could have lasting impacts. Dr. Tanveer Giaibi, chief of emergency medicine at Northwest Hospitals, answers questions about the dangers of and treatments for all...

Jill Palkovitz, dressmaker, dies

2011-05-25 10:11:00

Marvin Webster dead at 56

2009-04-09 00:00:00

Marvin Webster lived the good life at Morgan State University in the early 1970s. He was the "Human Eraser," a 7-foot-1 shot blocker who intimidated opponents on the basketball court and who charmed friends and teammates off it with his caring, selfless...

Ailing system struggles with inmate care

2005-06-10 00:00:00

In mid-March 2002, Marcella N. Leski, 39, was jailed for failing to appear in court on a drug-possession charge. Twelve days later, she was so ill that her legs were amputated below the knees. Her family alleges in a lawsuit that the prison contractor'...

Donald M. Jensen is director of the Center for Liver Diseases at University of Chicago Medicine.

2013-01-28 09:51:25

The football great died of bile-duct cancer brought on by an autoimmune liver disease in 1999. He was 45.

2012-09-05 08:12:35

Rev. Jose Landaverde, left, comforts Elfego Arroyo, as Arroyo weeps during his plea for a liver transplant at a rally outside the University of Illinois Hospital. Brothers Elfego and Lorenzo Arroyo each suffers from a deadly liver disease.

2012-06-13 00:00:00