Celebrity Patients
June 12, 2013
Tommy Chong Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer
Tommy Chong, best known as part of the pot-smoking duo “Cheech and Chong” announced on Saturday that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to CNN, and said medicinal marijuana is the cure to his ails…Symptoms of prostate cancer include trouble urinating, decreased force in the stream of urine, blood in the urine, bone […]
Tags: iScienceTimes, medical marijuana, prostate cancer, Tommy Chong
April 30, 2013
Cabaret star Michael York’s secret battle against killer illness
Michael York’s pallid appearance earlier this year at a reunion with his Cabaret co-stars Marisa Berenson and Joel Grey alarmed fans who could barely recognise him because of his swollen features. Now, the 71-year-old star of Logan’s Run and The Three Musketeers has disclosed that he has been fighting a battle against a rare blood […]
Tags: blood disorder, Cabaret, Michael York, stem cell transplant, Telegraph UK
March 14, 2013
Upbeat developments for Nick Blackburn
The other reason he’s in good spirits is that his wife, Alicia, is pregnant with twins and is in the clear after battling complications. It wasn’t an easy offseason for the family. Blackburn made several trips to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester to visit Dr. Richard Berger, the specialist who discovered the problem in his […]
Tags: Dr. Richard Berger, Major League Baseball, Nick Blackburn, Star Tribune, surgery, wrist surgery
March 6, 2013
Getting back to his old self, Mardy Fish awaits his return to the tour after 6 months away
Mardy Fish eased his way back into big-time tennis with an exhibition match against top-ranked Novak Djokovic…Fish said he visited the Mayo Clinic “to make sure everything is working properly and it is.” For three months, Fish didn’t leave the house, work out or play tennis. One benefit to laying low was that the time […]
Tags: Mardy Fish, tendinitis, tennis, Washington Post
February 18, 2013
Lena Dunham and 9 More Stars with OCD
For parents with OCD, having children can actually make symptoms worse. “OCD symptoms tend to latch on to things that are most important to us, so parents with OCD may have doubts about their abilities or intrusive thoughts about their child’s safety or hurting their child,” Stephen Whiteside, a psychologist at the Mayo Clinic in […]
Tags: ABC News, anxiety disorder, Dr. Stephen Whiteside, Lena Dunham, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD
January 29, 2013
Adult Chicken Pox: How Is Barbara Walters’ Condition Different From Shingles?
Barbara Walters, the 83-year-old veteran news anchor and co-host of “The View,” is in the hospital with chicken pox, according to news reports…Stacey Rizza, who is the chair of the HIV clinic at Mayo Clinic, an infectious disease expert and associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, told HuffPost that getting chicken pox as […]
Tags: Barbara Walters, chicken pox, Dr. Stacy Rizza, HIV clinic, Huffington Post, immune system, The View
January 17, 2013
‘Carefully Choreographed Dance’: Armstrong’s Complicated Media Past
After a career of alternately charming, manipulating and strong-arming the media, former cycling champion Lance Armstrong is turning for redemption to a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey…Schaap recalled a press conference after Armstrong’s first Tour win at which he was asked, ‘Doesn’t your victory after cancer show that anyone can triumph over anything if they […]
Tags: Lance Armstrong, Mayo Clinic, NPR, Oprah Winfrey, Tour de France
October 4, 2012
What’s To Learn About Lou Gehrig’s Death?
The fight to make Lou Gehrig’s medical records public begins in St. Paul, winds through Washington, D.C., and upstate New York, and ends at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. For 71 years, since the death of the legendary New York Yankee baseball star from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS — which became known as Lou […]
Tags: A.L.S., Lou Gehrig, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Nicholas Hanson, Star Tribune
July 31, 2012
Olivia Munn Has Anxiety Disorder Trichotillomania: ‘I Rip Out My Eyelashes’
Actress Olivia Munn has revealed that she has a rare anxiety disorder called trichotillomania. Trichotillomania is an extreme form of anxiety that causes one to pull out hair from the scalp, eyebrows or eyelashes, possibly leaving bald spots, according to the Mayo Clinic. International Business Times by Maria Vultaggio
Tags: anxiety disorder, International Business Times, Olivia Munn, trichotillomania
July 30, 2012
Rep. Jackson Reveals Treatment for Depression
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. revealed that he is being treated for “depression and gastrointestinal issues” at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., ending nearly two months of speculation about his illness and whereabouts but raising new questions about his condition…“Certainly some people do, as part of their depression or anxiety disorder, manifest it with […]
Tags: depression, Dr. Matthew Lilly, gastrointestinal issues, Jesse Jackson Jr., Wall Street Journal