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The second time around, 'Love Is All You Need'
Pierce Brosnan was self-assured and sexy as James Bond in four blockbusters. He warbled ABBA in the 2008 musical "Mamma Mia!" and played a former British prime minister in Roman Polanski's 2010 thriller "The Ghost Writer." But be vulnerable? Not so...
Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Health Treatments, Love Is All You Need (movie), Entertainment, Susanne Bier
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Poll: Should doctors tell terminally ill patients they're dying?
As my colleague Melissa Healy noted Thursday, a British medical journal recently invited doctors who specialize in end-of-life care to debate whether patients should be told that they're terminally ill. Two London-based palliative care doctors argued in...
Tags: University of Virginia, Respiratory Disease, Leukemia, Health Treatments, Palliative Care
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Teemu Selanne, a comeback kid and a promise happily kept
Bobby Heravi did not want his son, Faryan, to hear the doctor's verdict and so made sure the boy's head was turned away when he asked about his son's chances of surviving an aggressive form of lymphoma. "With my mouth expression I said, 'What percent?'...
Tags: Health Treatments, Honda Center, Hospitals and Clinics, Cancer, Lymphoma
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Watch a 7-year-old boy's long touchdown run in Nebraska scrimmage
Jack Hoffman had only one thing on his mind as he ran down the field during Nebraska's football scrimmage on Saturday. "Scoring a touchdown," he said. And that is just what the 7-year-old, who has won the hearts of everyone involved with Nebraska...
Tags: Johnny Unitas, Health Treatments, Women's National Basketball Association, Football, MRI (imaging)
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Food as medicine? What to make of the claims.
What's a healthful food and what's a healing food? Is there a difference? At least since the mid-19th century, when the Battle Creek Sanitarium opened its doors and people flocked there to follow John Harvey Kellogg's regime of whole grains, nuts and...
Tags: Harvard Medical School, Dietary Supplements, Health Treatments, Coconut, Drugs and Medicines
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Review: Nora Ephron's 'Lucky Guy' is great news
NEW YORK — In the program for "Lucky Guy," the play Nora Ephron raced to complete before her death last year, there's a note by the author titled "Journalism: A Love Story." That's a pretty good description of the drama, Ephron's valentine to...
Tags: Health Treatments, Richard Masur, Tom Hanks, Newspaper and Magazine, Courtney B. Vance
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Karen Black cancer fundraiser takes off with crowd support
Actress Karen Black, who's been battling cancer for more than two years, has turned to the public for help to pay for an experimental treatment in Europe — and as of Monday afternoon, the crowdfunding plea was working. The 73-year-old, Oscar-...
Tags: Health Treatments, Karen Black, Social Media, Valerie Harper, Celebrities
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No need for papal conclave: Paul and Howard will be staying in L.A.
Dwight Howard and Chris Paul have big decisions to make about where they might play next year, maybe changing their lives forever. I know what that's like. I was in the seminary, and had I not made out with Sandy in front of the Our Lady of Fatima...
Tags: Chris Paul, Religious Education, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Phil Jackson
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Venezuela orders U.S. Embassy attache to leave country
CARACAS, Venezuela -- In a move that heightened tensions surrounding the health of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez, his vice president on Tuesday expelled the U.S. Embassy's military attache, accusing him of "proposing destabilizing plans" to...
Tags: Government, Health Treatments, Hugo Chavez, U.S. Embassy, Monaco
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Baseball: Pitcher Nick Hurtado dies of bone cancer at 21
Varsity Times InsiderNick Hurtado, a former Corona Santiago pitching standout who offered inspiration and hope by the way he battled during his fight with bone cancer, died on Friday night. He was 21. "Nick had the most amazing strength and the most...... -
Young superhero has a team behind him
Sounds strange, I know. But I hope you never have reason to meet Dr. Noah Federman, who makes his living saving children's lives. Extraordinary guy. Take all the athletes I've met in more than 40 years and this is my hero, even though he has to admit,...
Tags: Health Treatments, Hospitals and Clinics, Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, Cancer, Lung Cancer
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Letters: The view from a cancer survivor
Re “Breast practices,” Opinion, Feb. 21 I have no genetic markers for breast cancer and no outstanding risks. I am an average female. Yet it is due to a couple of routine mammograms that I am here. I went in on two-year intervals, and...Tags: Health Treatments, Cancer, Mastectomy, Breast Cancer, Mammogram
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