One of the big winner at last night’s Emmy Awards was an HBO film called Temple Grandin. It won Emmys for Outstanding Made For Television...
In a development that is simultaneously a publicity stunt but also a look into the future of personalized healthcare, Ozzy Osbourne and Knome, Inc. recently...
Spartacus actor Andy Whitfield, 26, was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In the year we've been blogging about "common diseases affecting uncommon people," we've written...
This past week, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released new guidelines in the March 2010 issue of Pediatrics for the prevention of choking in...
Hollywood is shedding light on a rare metabolic disease in the new movie, Extraordinary Measures. In it, Harrison Ford plays, Dr. Robert Stonehill, a scientist...
Actor Patrick Swayze’s very public battle with stage IV pancreatic cancer raised public awareness of this disease. Three other public figures died from cancer of...
In 1983 at the age of 30, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease — the same cancer of the lymph system that...
OK, a computer virus is not the usual type of "infectious disease" that we blog about at Celebrity Diagnosis, but anyway....
Praised by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France as an “indefatigable humanist,” Claude Levi-Strauss’ 100th birthday was celebrated in 25 countries on 28 November 2008. He...
Resveratrol is a naturally-occurring plant substance, available as a dietary supplement, that has been scientifically shown to extend the lifespans of several non-human animals including...