January 2010 - Celebrity Diagnosis

Etta James Hospitalized with Serious Infection
By Dr Mark Boguski on January 29, 2010
Etta James, 72, has been hospitalized at Riverside Community Hospital in southern California with a serious infection. The R & B legend is probably best...
Reclusive legend J.D. Salinger expires
By Dr Mark Boguski on January 28, 2010
Legendary author, Jerome David Salinger died yesterday of natural causes in his home in Cornish, New Hampshire were he lived in self-exile for decades. Mr....
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Rare Disease Gets the Hollywood Treatment
By Dr Mark Boguski on January 26, 2010
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...
A sad Bonanza of Pancreatic Cancer: actor Pernell Roberts dead at 81
By Dr Mark Boguski on January 26, 2010
We recently blogged about the curious fact that the 1960s-era TV Western Bonanza was the favorite show of the famous French surrealist Rene Magritte. Magritte...
“All My Children” Star James Mitchell Dies
By Dr Mark Boguski on January 25, 2010
James Mitchell, who starred as patriarch Palmer Cortland on the ABC soap opera All My Children for thirty years, has died at the age of...
Actress Jean Simmons Dies From Lung Cancer
By Dr Mark Boguski on January 23, 2010
Hollywood icon, Jean Simmons, has died at age 80 from lung cancer. The actress, who starred in over 60 films, is best known from her...
Survivor Jennifer Lyon: Palau Didn’t Get Her But Lack of Health Insurance Did
By Dr Mark Boguski on January 21, 2010
Jennifer Lyon, a contestant who came in fourth on the 2005 season of Survivor: Palau, did not survive her battle with breast cancer. The 37...
Brooke Mueller in Intensive Care after Dental Surgery-UPDATED
By Dr Mark Boguski on January 20, 2010
At the beginning of this month, we talked about Charlie Sheen’s anger management issues when he was arrested for allegedly threatening his wife, actress Brooke...
Charlie Daniels Suffers Mild Stroke
By Dr Mark Boguski on January 20, 2010
Singer and fiddler extraordinaire Charlie Daniels has suffered a mild stroke. The 73 year old, probably best known for his song The Devil Went Down...

Book World Loses Two Well-Known Authors
By Dr Mark Boguski on January 20, 2010
This week we lost two well- known authors- Robert B. Parker and Erich Segal. Both died of heart attacks. Robert B. Parker,77, was a prolific...

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