Новости за 12.10.2017

Cancer screening could save your life. Then again, it could give you a false alarm or lull you into a false sense of security. Here's a round-up of the latest advice from the experts.

Ever since 1761, when the Italian physician Giovanni Battista Morgagni published his detailed findings from 700 autopsies, cancers have been inextricably linked with the organs they inhabit.

Bin McLaurin was lucky. Doctors detected his prostate cancer early, and he successfully completed the surgery, radiation and hormone therapy he needed to keep the disease at bay.

A Q&A with Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, who talks about various ways our ideas about cancer have changed.

We all want to avoid cancer. That's a given. But when cancer risk seems to lurk everywhere, it's hard to know what you really need to do to protect yourself. Here's what you should sweat, and here's what you shouldn't worry about.

To meet Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany, stars of the Netflix series “Mindhunter,” you’d never suspect they recently spent 10 long months consumed with the darkest reaches of the human psyche.

Big deadly fires are nothing new to California, particularly during fire season when the Santa Ana or Diablo winds blow hot and dry, making tinder out of trees and bushes that have been baking all summer long.

To the editor: I believe the United States should control its borders and pass laws to that end. Still, I disagree with a reader who decried Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of a “sanctuary state” bill. (“How is declaring California a 'sanctuary state' different from what Southern states did?” Readers...

To the editor: This time of year I usually exult over headlines heralding USC’s latest gridiron triumph. But not now — not after Times reports have exposed USC’s scandal-ridden fundraising endeavors.

If you can’t beat ’em, manage ’em.

Millions of patients live by that rule every day — patients with chronic conditions that can’t be cured but can be kept under control with the right combination of medication, diet and lifestyle choices.

High blood pressure can be treated this way. So can diabetes....

UC Davis firearms violence expert Garen Wintemute has been called "the most dangerous scientist in America" to the gun industry. His new research center, the nation's first state-funded program, is studying possible links among gun owners, alcohol abuse and violence that could lead to new laws.

As the death toll rises in Northern California’s fires, wind and dry weather are making it harder to bring the flames under control. Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:

The State Bar of California has recommended that an Orange County prosecutor be suspended for at least a year, finding that she failed to turn over to defense counsel copies of an inmate’s mail that she secretly collected before trial.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein kept many in suspense for months over her decision to seek reelection, but since announcing her plans Monday to pursue a sixth term, she’s made clear there will be no more waiting.

You go from dreary Parsons Boulevard in Queens to Hollywood movie mogul but can’t feel your life. What do you do? You have such pretty people begging for a taste of your dreams but feel nothing. What do you do? In a sausage-factory city, you produce works of art but feel worse than ever. What do...

There are many paths to the presidency, most of them a standard climb from one elected office to the next.

When Sen. Bob Corker first proposed sending lethal U.S. weaponry to Kiev so that Ukrainians could fight off their nuclear-armed Russian neighbors, no one then warned that the Tennessee Republican’s ideas could hurtle us “toward World War III.”

Dennis DeVilbiss had made up his mind.

“I’m not leaving,” the former cop and firefighter said Wednesday afternoon as he stood on his front porch in Calistoga, a wine country town under threat from an approaching wildfire. Authorities had ordered its 5,000 residents to evacuate.

He glanced at smoke...

In Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, mammoth hurricanes have left behind a colossal amount of work. The cleanup and reconstruction efforts are going to take years. That means a severe demand for salvage and demolition crews, roofers, carpenters, drywall installers, painters, plumbers...

The casino hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, with all their glitzy delights, aren’t just palaces of distraction. They’re miniature surveillance states.

As more accusations pile up against Harvey Weinstein, a growing number of celebrities have issued statements about the tarnished movie mogul's alleged sexual misconduct.

A photo taken Sept. 29, 1966, shows a 300-pound tranquilized Bengal tiger named Henry being dragged by Dr. Charles Sedwick to a level spot.