Figure skater Dorothy Hamill knows what it takes to win an athletic competition. The 56-year-old became a household name when she won the gold medal in figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics. But winning a mirror ball trophy on Dancing With The Stars may be more difficult than she bargained for. Hamill has had [...]
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Robin Roberts is Back! What It Took to Get Her There
Five months to the day after her bone marrow transplant, Robin Roberts was back at the anchor desk on Good Morning America. Roberts, 52, underwent the bone marrow transplant on September 20, to treat Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), which was a complication of the treatment she received for breast cancer in 2007. Her sister, Sally Ann [...]
Celebrity Breast Cancer Survivors
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Yes, it’s that time of year when everything gets bathed in pink. To honor the occasion, we’d like to tip our hat to 15 women who have publicly battled with breast cancer. To read more of the stories of these women click on their names: Robin Roberts, Wanda Sykes, [...]
Colts’ Coach Chuck Pagano Has Leukemia
The players seemed stunned when Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Chuck Pagano wasn’t at the scheduled Monday morning team meeting. They were even more stunned when the heard the reason- Pagano had been diagnosed with leukemia — a cancer of white blood cells — and was in the hospital starting treatment. Apparently Pagano’s wife, Tina, was [...]
What Disease Unites the Romney and Obama Clans (and Newt Gingrich too)?
In 1997 Mitt Romney and his wife Ann, 48, knew that there was something seriously wrong with her. She couldn’t feel pinpricks in her foot. She couldn’t keep her balance. She couldn’t touch her nose with her eyes closed. When her youngest of five sons Craig, 17, found out his Mom’s diagnosis, he cried because [...]
Suzanne Somers used Belly Fat Stem Cells to grow Her New Breasts
Suzanne Somers is no stranger to medical controversy For instance, the Three’s Company actress and Thigh-Master guru has claimed that her continued youthful appearance is due to bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT)*. In 2001, Somers was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a lumpectomy and radiation, but declined to undergo chemotherapy. In November, 2008, Suzanne [...]
27 Most Shocking Moments in Celebrity Health-2011
Good or Bad, celebrities continue to shock and amaze us, and 2011 was no exception. From Charlie Sheen’s outburst in February, and Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliff admitting to being an alcoholic, to the tragic losses of Steve Jobs, Ryan Dunn, Amy Winehouse and others, 2011 was a year filled with shocking celebrity health moments that [...]
The Return of the Cancer: Ethan Zohn Fights Back With A “Magic Bullet”
“YOU HAVE CANCER.” These have to be some of the most gut-wrenching words a person can hear. Especially if you have been in remission after a particularly difficult treatment regimen that included a stem cell transplant. What would you think then? Would your answer be…? I’m not a failure. There are millions of people out [...]
Did Cancer Cause Kara Kennedy’s Heart Attack?
Some families seem to have more than their share of tragedy. The Kennedys are one of those. Friday night, Kara Kennedy Allen, the only daughter of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, died at the age of 51. The oldest of his three children suffered a heart attack after working out at a gym in Northwest Washington, D.C. Her [...]
Michael Douglas: “The tumor is gone.”
This morning the Today Show aired an exclusive interview between Matt Lauer and Michael Douglas. As you know, Douglas was diagnosed with Stage 4 throat cancer in August 2010. He underwent 7 weeks of radiation therapy and intensive chemotherapy. Now Douglas says that he recently got the news that the tumor is gone: “I think [...]
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