“MARIA MADE A LIST of things she would never do. She would never: walk through the Sands or Caesar’s alone after midnight. She would never: ball at a party, do S-M unless she wanted to, borrow furs from Abe Lipsey, deal. She would never: carry a Yorkshire in Beverly Hills.”
I came across Play It as It Lays in my high-school library when I was 16, and I cut two or possibly three classes to read it. God, I hated
Led Zeppelin rewrote the book on rock ‘n’ roll excess and extremes.
Constantly trumping one another with drink, drugs, sexual conquests and unspeakable acts of debauchery, they made even the likes of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards look like Cliff Richard.
By their side through their heyday, and arguably even more hard-living, was their hellraising tour manager Richard Cole, who has died of cancer aged 75.
As well as arranging the band’s security and transportation on the road, he was
This story is a collaboration between Public Health Watch and the Investigative Reporting Workshop.
In April 2008, Jonathan Agin’s 27-month-old daughter, Alexis, was diagnosed with DIPG, a rare brain tumor. Agin, then a civil defense lawyer in Washington, DC, was dislodged from his comfortable life and dragged into the surreal world of a young cancer victim’s parent: The sleepless nights
A woman who was proud of a ‘super-cute’ heart-shaped freckle on her face was horrified to discover it was skin cancer – and is now urging people to wear sunscreen.
KayIa Mailer, a stage manager and secretary from Portland, Oregon, had a tiny freckle on her left cheek from the age of 12. Over the course of 15 years it transformed into a perfect heart shape.
But the unique beauty mark, which people regularly complimented and thought was a tattoo,
Do you check your breasts regularly for signs of cancer? I didn’t – and I was a breast surgeon who spent a career treating breast cancer. Like most women, I didn’t think breast cancer would happen to me. And then, aged 40, it did.
I saw the lump in my left breast in the mirror one day while getting dressed. I could have sworn it wasn’t there the day before. But it would have been, although for how long I
Zum Shannen Doherty, ist es wichtig, „so ehrlich wie möglich“ zu sein, wenn sie ihren Kampf gegen den Krebs fortsetzt. Die Schauspielerin kämpfte zwischen März 2015 und April 2017 gegen Brustkrebs und gab im Februar 2020 bekannt, dass die Krankheit zurückgekehrt war.
„Es wird in wenigen Tagen oder einer Woche herauskommen, dass – ich bin im Stadium IV. Also kam mein Krebs zurück. Und deshalb bin ich hier“, erzählte sie Guten Morgen Amerika damals. „Ich glaube nicht, dass ich
The COVID crisis has scrambled the EU’s priorities when it comes to health. But while all eyes have been on COVID-19, European institutions have been carrying on their “silent battle” against an older enemy: cancer.
Despite making up less than 10% of the world’s population, Europe accounts for almost a quarter of global cancer cases.
In 2020 alone, 2.7 million people in the EU were diagnosed with cancer, while 1.3 million people lost their lives to it.
So it came
A young woman has spoken about the terrifying moment she was diagnosed with skin cancer despite wearing sunscreen and practicing sun safety.
Kelsie Dummètt, from Brisbane, was diagnosed with melanoma in July after a biopsy on a freckle on her right breast.
The 25-year-old, who has also battled an incurable autoimmune disease since she was 17, said the news came as a total shock.
‘To be completely honest I am absolutely terrified and the last few months has been torturous,’
Rest in peace to these Hollywood legends. The celebrity deaths of 2021 include Larry King, Bond Girl Tanya Roberts and other recently passed stars we’ve lost.
It’s no secret that 2020 wasn’t the start to the decade that the world hoped for. From the current health situation to the loss of stars like Kobe Bryant, Naya Rivera and Chadwick Boseman, there were many reasons to mourn in 2020. “Kobe was known as a fierce competitor on the basketball court. The … Read more
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