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SEATTLE _ The mother of sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo has been ordered deported by an immigration court judge during a closed hearing in Seattle. She remains in the country […]

SEATTLE _ Travel agent Betsy McDonaugh relies on "a gut feeling" about the safety of cruise-ship travel to Dubai, a port city in the United Arab Emirates that has spent […]

SEATTLE _ Even as America scrambles to secure airports against terrorists, it is neglecting the nation's most vulnerable gateways _ its 361 seaports. Officials have moved to bolster coastline security […]

SEATTLE_Inexperience and unfamiliarity among wild land fire crews and their supervisors are creating safety hazards and contributing to delays in dispatching crews to blazes, according to interviews and complaints filed […]

SEATTLE _ The ground had barely stopped quivering when a federal computer in Bothell spit out the first estimate of the damage from Wednesday's earthquake: $3.9 billion in property losses, […]

SEATTLE _ Dr. Jian Chen was seeking an honorable death and revenge in June when he walked into his mentor's office at the University of Washington Medical Center with a […]

SEATTLE _ Fourteen college students, bodies and psyches drained, watch bleary-eyed as an older man dramatically feeds an electric blender the final ingredient of the rancid concoction that will be […]

SEATTLE _ The brothers of Delta Kappa Epsilon devised a straightforward routine for handling police interruptions during the ritualized abuse of new members: Stall the cops and hide the trouble. […]

Never mind time or the ravages of Parkinson's disease that have muted his boasts and reduced his once-fluid movements to permanent static. Muhammad Ali is still the rebels' hero. The […]

A Garden Grove woman left comatose after surgery at UCI Medical Center won her suit against the hospital Tuesday when an Orange County judge ruled that UCI would not be […]

ORANGE, Calif. _ Children's Hospital of Orange County will become a national source of umbilical-cord blood, which should make it easier for minorities to find donors for bone-marrow transplants, the […]

SANTA ANA, Calif. _ The University of California, Irvine _ the target of 46 lawsuits charging staff doctors with theft and misappropriation of human eggs _ will host a national […]

SEATTLE _ Leaders of the nation's largest fertility society _ shaken in part by the scandal at UCI's Center for Reproductive Health _ have broken a 51-year tradition by drafting […]

SANTA ANA, Calif. _ A former UCI fertility-clinic biologist has confirmed that embryos shipped to Cornell University for research last year include some from patients who contend they did not […]

SANTA ANA, Calif. _ Early one morning in the fall of 1991, a fresh sperm sample arrived in a sealed plastic cup at the University of California, Irvine's Center for […]

Chancellor Laurel L. Wilkening said Thursday that she intends to strip Ricardo H. Asch and his two former fertility clinic partners of their faculty positions at the University of California, […]

The head of the internationally acclaimed University of California, Irvine, fertility clinic harvested eggs from an Orange County woman without her consent and gave them to another patient who delivered […]

They'll crack your back, massage your muscles, cut your connective tissue and sew your torn tendons. They'll run electric currents up and down your arms, inject you with steroids, teach […]

WESTMINSTER, Calif. _ For more than a year, Debi French received the most modern medicines available for curing tuberculosis. Now, doctors are reaching back 50 years to treat her, to […]

PALM DESERT, Calif. _ The man at the center of a breast cancer research scandal explained Wednesday how his research revolutionized the treatment of breast cancer and urged his colleagues […]

We hate to do this to you, especially so soon after the health gurus condemned movie-theater popcorn as a culinary hazard, but you might want to take another look at […]

PALM DESERT, Calif. _ Bargain-hunting by insurers could do more damage to breast-cancer treatment practices than the recent research scandals over breast-saving surgeries, doctors at a national conference said Monday. […]

Erika Siebert knew even before she took the test that she was infected with tuberculosis. For months, she had watched one of her best friends waste away from a mysterious […]

I stepped out of the car and into unnerving quiet. From the hills above me, curls of white and brown smoke unfurled, revealing a menacing red glow. My mouth was […]

Two California boys who allege that their father regularly beats and berates them, went to court Wednesday looking to 'divorce' him and their legal mothers. The boys' cases, involving two […]

Here are tips for getting the most out of your preferred provider organization: Q. What is a PPO? A. A 'preferred provider organization,' or PPO, is a network of hospitals […]

As she lay in her hospital bed 90 minutes before surgery, Beverly Rohrer's thoughts ricocheted from one worry to the next. The operation. The cyst on her ovary. The possibility […]