Christina Applegate Free of Breast Cancer

Christina Applegate, the Samantha Who? star who was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this month, is now becoming cancer free as a result of treatment (say double mastectomy).

Picture: Christina Applegate attended "Over Her Dead Body" Los Angeles Premiere at ArcLight Cinerama Dome, Hollywood this January. (Image credit: Albert L. Ortega/PR Photos)

"I'm clear. Absolutely 100 percent clear and clean. It did not spread. They got everything out, so I'm definitely not going to die from breast cancer." the 36-year-old actress told Robin Roberts of ABC News' Good Morning America in an interview aired on Tuesday, August 19. Source: USmagazine.com

Christina Applegate Cancer: Christina Applegate Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

Christina Applegate Cancer: Actress Christina Applegate, who was best-known for Kelly Bundy on Married... With Children, has been diagnosed with breast cancer, according to the reports.

File photo: Christina Applegate wearing an extreme low-cut dress attended 2004 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on September 12, 2004. She was diagnosed with the early-stage breast cancer in August, 2008. (Image credit: PR Photos)

“Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection… the cancer is not life threatening. Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery.” Ame Van Iden, Applegate's rep, said in a statement released to the media.

Christina Applegate, the 36-year-old Smathana Who? star who previously won an Emmy for her guest role as Jennifer Aniston's sister in Friends, had a family history of cancer. Her mother, actress/singer Nancy Lee Priddy suffered both breast and cervical cancer. Applegate has been advocating for breast cancer research. She was scheduled to appear on Stand Up to Cancer, a one-hour long fund-raising event to be aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on September 5.

Natalie Cole Hepatitis C: Natalie Cole Having Liver Disease Hepatitis

File Photo: Natalie Cole and supermodel Heidi Klum's singer husband Seal attended the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2008. (Image credit: Chris Hatcher/PR Photos )

Natalie Cole, the 58-year-old multiple Grammys winning singer, has Hepatitis C!  Natalie, the daughter of noted crooner Nat King Cole, was diagnosed with the liver disease during a routine examination and now treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, reported the various worldwide news outlets. Natalie Cole who once addicted to LSD, cocaine and heroin was believed to have contacted  Hepatitis C virus during  her drug use in 1980's.

Dianne Odell Killed After Iron Lung Suffered Power Failure

Dianne Odell Picture

Dianne Odell, an inspirational lady from Tennessee who spent nearly six decades of her life in an iron lung, died after her breath-supporting machine was stricken by a power failure. Ms. Odell suffe

A woman who spent nearly 60 years of her life in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday after a power failure shut down the machine that kept her breathing, her family said.

Dianne Odell, 61, had been confined to the 7-foot-long machine since she was stricken by polio at 3 years old.

Family members were unable to get an emergency generator working for the iron lung after a power failure knocked out electricity to the Odell family's residence near Jackson, about 80 miles northeast of Memphis, brother-in-law Will Beyer said.

"We did everything we could do but we couldn't keep her breathing," said Beyer, who was called to the home shortly after the power failed. "Dianne had gotten a lot weaker over the past several months and she just didn't have the strength to keep going."

Capt. Jerry Elston of the Madison County Sheriff's Department said emergency crews were called to the scene, but could do little to help.

Odell was afflicted with "bulbo-spinal" polio three years before a polio vaccine was discovered and largely stopped the spread of the crippling childhood disease.

She spent her life in the iron lung, cared for by her parents and other family members. Though confined inside the 750-pound apparatus, Odell managed to get a high school diploma, take college courses and write a children's book.

The iron lung that she used was a cylindrical chamber with a seal at the neck. She lay on her back in the device with only her head exposed, and made eye contact with visitors using an angled mirror above her head. The lung worked by producing positive and negative pressure on the lungs that caused them to expand and contract so that she could breathe.

Iron lungs were first used to sustain life in 1928, and were largely replaced by positive-pressure airway ventilators in the late 1950s. A spinal deformity from the polio made it impossible for Odell to wear a more modern, portable breathing apparatus, so she continued to use the older machine.

How tragic! Our prayers and thoughts are with Odell's family. Link

Oscar Is the Featherless Parrot (Video)

This parrot named Oscar is a featherless bird. A rare virus has caused her to pull out almost all her feathers during the past twelve12 years. About her sufferings, Youtube user tegwenseren commented, "I will never eat chicken again, this little bird pulled at my heart strings, she is adorable with a very big heart, and a beautiful spirit."

Patrick Swayze Prepared for Pancreatic Cancer Death

Patrick Swayze who is fighting against a fatally pancreatic cancer reportedly had prepared for the end for wife of 32 years, Lisa Niemi.

A gaunt Patrick Swayze was seen doing shopping in Los Angeles

"Patrick told his family he's not giving up, but he wanted to make sure everything like the will was in place in the event that his health began to fail quickly and he didn't have time to take care of things." one of Patrick Swayze's friends was quoted as saying.

The 55-year-old actor of Ghost and Dirty Dancing is expected to transfer millions-worth properties to his beloved wife. Link

Russian Woman's 57kg-Fat Belly (Picture)

The hormonal disturbance caused Russian woman Natalya M.'s belly to grow bigger and bigger since she was very young. Natalya's gigantic skin fat made her have to stump it to make a step, let alone to become a mom. But after her recent visit to a hospital in Voronezh where the doctors operated for hours to remove her huge belly growth measuring 36 inches (above 91 cm) long and weighed 125 pounds (about 57 kg), her dream of being a mother may come true some day. Link

Kenneth Keith Kallenbach Death: Howard Stern Wackpacker Kenneth Keith Kallenbach Died of Pneumonia?

R.I.P!

Kenneth Keith Kallenbach, a comedian and musician best known as one of Howard Stern’s longest-serving Wack Pack members, has died in a Chester County hospital. Details are still sketchy, but Kallenbach had apparently contracted pneumonia in jail while being held on attempted child-abduction charges.

World's First Scar-free Appendectomy

The world's first scar-free appendectomy has been successfully performed at University of San Diego Medical Centre, USA. Jeff Scholtz, a former U.S. marine, has recently secured his place in medical history, becoming the first patient in the world who had his appendix through mouth removed.

The operation, which is a major advance in the quest for scar-free surgery, was performed by doctors in San Diego, California, who used a flexible tube to thread miniature surgical instruments down the 42-year-old's throat to his stomach.

A tiny incision was then made in the stomach wall to get at the appendix - a small worm-like pouch attached to the large bowel.

The inflamed appendix was cut away, bagged and pulled back into the stomach - and out of the mouth.

Source: DM

Cranofacial Duplication Baby Born With Two Faces

Craniofacial duplication [wiki], or known as Diprosopus, is an extremely rare congenital disorder whereby part or all of the face is duplicated on the head. Although classically considered conjoined twinning, this anomaly is not normally due to the fusion or incomplete separation of two embryos. It is the result of a protein called Sonic hedgehog homolog (SHH).

In such a rare case, an Indian baby girl named Lali was born with two faces last month. Baby Lali's facial features are duplicated (four eyes, two noses, and two mouths) with the exception of her ears - she has two. Now one month old, this baby with two faces who was claimed by her villagers  as the reincarnation of the Indian God Ganesha, was said doing well.

"She drinks milk from her two mouths and opens and shuts all the four eyes at one time," the director of Saifi Hospital, Sabir Ali, said.

"She is leading a normal life with no breathing difficulties.''
He said he saw no need for surgery. ...

"Her mother, Sushma, told The Hindustan Times her daughter was "just like any other child".

The doctor said everything is normal when she was born. So where's the need to get medical help?" 24-year-old Kumar said.

"She's fed through one mouth and sucks her thumb with the other. We use whichever mouth is free to feed her."

Source: DM & New Au

Prince Philip Hospitalized for Chest Infection

Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip picture (via)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was hospitalized for a chest infection on Thursday afternoon. The 86-year-old Prince Philip who suffered a cold since Monday was admitted to the £500-a-night private King Edward VII's Hospital in central London. He is expected to recover soon and Queen Elizabeth II has no plans to visit her husband at the private hospital. Link 

Sean Levert Death: Casanova Singer Sean Levert Passed Away In Hospital After Being Transported From Jail

Sean Levert (picture left, via), 39, son of legendary O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert and the brother of late R&B superstar Gerald Levert, died of natural causes in Lutheran Hospital after being transported from the Cuyahoga County Jail at 11:57pm on March 30.

Sean Levert had reportedly been in prison for failing to pay about $80,000 in child support and was sentenced to 22 months.

Sean, Gerald and Marc Gordon made  up the 80s music group Levert, which hit it big with its popular song "Casanova." Sean Levert had also featured in several movies, including 1991's New Jack City. Link

Amy Winehouse's Scabs and Spots Covered Face

Amy Winehouse's spokesman has insisted the Grammy-winning singer is suffering from the bacterial skin infection impetigo. But friends fear the scabs on her face are a sign that her drinking and drug taking is once again spiralling out of control. Link

Stephanie Kuleba Is A Breast Augmentation Surgery Victim

Stephanie Kuleba was the captain of cheerleading squad, a nearly straight-A student at West Boca High School and a soon-to-be pre-med freshman at the University of Florida. But now, the 18-year-old Stephanie Kuleba is dead, and many believe the breast augmentation surgery is the possible cause of her death.

Stephanie Kuleba had a charmed life: captain of the varsity cheerleading squad at West Boca High, a nearly perfect grade-point average, good looks and a ticket to the University of Florida, where she would start her journey toward becoming a medical doctor.

Her friends said she was "perfect," so when Kuleba died Saturday of complications from breast surgery, none of them could understand how the girl whose success in life "was a sure thing" could perish in such a strange and devastating fashion.

Kuleba died after she suffered a fatal reaction to anesthesia during corrective breast augmentation surgery, ABC's Good Morning America reported this morning.

Nearly two hours into the surgery, Kuleba was rushed to Delray Medical Center, where she died 24 hours later, said the family's attorney Roberto Stanziale.

Kuleba was undergoing surgery to correct asymmetrical breasts and an inverted areola, Stanziale told the program.

Doctors believe the cause of death was malignant hyperthermia, a relatively rare metabolic condition that can be triggered by certain anesthesia. A patient's heart rate and metabolism rises, causing the body temperature to rise as high as 112 degrees.

Board-certified plastic surgeon Stephen Schuster performed the surgery at an outpatient facility at 1905 Clint Moore Road in Boca Raton.

"I am devastated by the loss and I feel for the family," he said in a statement.

"The surgery itself was very personal," said Benny Perlman, a friend of Kuleba's who spoke on behalf of her grieving family Monday night. "She passed away from complications during surgery.

Stephanie Kuleba's decease is really a great loss to her family, friends and school. Our prayers and thoughts are with them! Source: PalmBeachPost

Amy Winehouse Breast Cancer Campaign

With only a guitar strumming front and two pieces of duct tape stuck on boobs, Amy Winehouse posed for photographer Carolyn Djanogly to raise awareness about breast cancer among young women. The Amy Winehouse breast cancer campaign picture appeared  in the April issue of British women's magazine Easy Living.  Link

Chantal Sebire With Esthesioneuroblastoma Passed Away

 

Chantal Sebire is a French woman who recently grabbed the headlines in France after she pleaded for euthanasia.  The 52-year-old schoolteacher was found dead at her home in the eastern town of Plombieres-les-Dijon in the Bourgogne region, Eastern France today on March 20.  On Monday, Chantal Sebire was rejected by a court to be allowed for a lethal dose of barbiturates. Chantal Sebire was suffering a rare cancer called Esthesioneuroblastoma which had seriously disfigured her face and caused her to lose the sight and suffer continuous pains. As shown in the inset of Chantal Sebire picture above, you can see the tumor had led her nose to swell to several times its original size, and pushed one of her eye sockets out of her head.   Link

Dame Maggie Smith Breast Cancer

Dame Maggie Smith, who played Professor McGongall in the Harry Potter movies, is fighting a battle with breast cancer, the UK media reported. The 73-year-old Oscar winner is said to have insisted on going ahead with filming the latest instalment of the hit boy wizard series last month even though she was undergoing radiation therapy at the time. Mrs. Dame Maggie Smith, wishing you a full recovery as soon as possible!

1 in 4 Teen Girls in US has STDs

Almost can't believe, but this is the result found from the study done by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta!

One in four teenage girls in the United States has a sexually-transmitted disease, a study has indicated.

The study, by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found an even higher prevalence of STDs among black girls.

Researchers analysed data from a nationally representative sample of 838 US girls aged 14 to 19.

A virus that causes cervical cancer - HPV - was the most common, followed by chlamydia, trichomoniasis and herpes.

The CDC says the study is the first in its kind to examine the prevalence of common sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent girls.

It found that nearly half of the African-American girls surveyed had at least one STD, while the rate was 20% among white and Mexican-American teenagers.

Human papillomavirus, or HPV, affected 18% of the girls surveyed, chlamydia 4%, trichomoniasis 2.5%, and herpes simplex virus 2%.

Source: BBC