In his book "When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine," Dr. Barron Lerner of Columbia University, College of Physicians and...
Miep Gies, the secretary who helped hide Anne Frank and her family for two years has died at age 100. Gies is also responsible for...
It’s no secret that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not very forthcoming about the health issues he faced. The 32nd President refused to be photographed in...
Dr. B and I are just wrapping up a week in Brussels and today we toured an art museum devoted exclusively to the great Belgian...
Continuing our support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’d like to tell the story of author Frances (Fanny) Burney. Frances Burney d’Arblay (1752-1840) was a...
Today we begin a new feature of Celebrity Diagnosis. From time to time we will go back in history and discuss the illnesses that affected...
Mr. Gebart’s wife, Pat, declined to specify what type of cancer her husband had and we respect her privacy. FYI, according the the CDC (the...
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of President John F. Kennedy, and Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy has died at a hospital in Hyannis, MA. One of...
It has been used by both Oprah and Dr. Phil to refer to cases in which celebrities become symbols for important social issues such as...
Robert Strange McNamara, one of the “Best and the Brightest” of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died at his home early this morning. He was...