Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is acondition in which the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating.When this happens, blood stops flowing to the brain and other...
“The King of Pop” Michael Jackson, age 50, was rushed by ambulance from his home to a hospital in Los Angeles. The 911 call reportedly...
As we’ve said before, creative people achieve a kind of practical immortality through their body of works. Farrah Fawcett will be remembered not only as...
Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, M.D. has lost her battle with breast cancer. Dr. Fitzgerald captured the world’s attention in the spring of 1999 when, as the...
Dr. Michael Baden, who performed the autopsy on Mr. Carradine, told Fox News that “In any death, before arrivingat a final cause, one has to...
Steve Jobs’ liver transplant was performed at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, TN. Here is a statement from the hospital James D. Eason, M.D.,program director...
Primary bone cancer is cancer that forms in cells of the bone. Sometypes of primary bone cancer are osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, malignantfibrous histiocytoma, and chondrosarcoma....
Most news stories about Mr. Jobs’ tumor misleadingly refer to it as “pancreatic cancer” rather than an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor which is what it...
Back in January, Steve Jobs said that he had a “hormone imbalance” as a result of his rare form of pancreas cancer and that it...
According to a blog hosted by Boston.com, the seriousness of Cronkite’s medical condition has been exaggerated in other news reports. We did find those reports...