Could Hugh Hefner's loose lifestyle have led to health problems?
Hef's been healthy since suffering a stroke in 1985. Those were the best years of his life.
"I have some aches and pains and I have had lower back problems since the '80s," Hefner told Pop Tarts. "Too much time in bed rustling around with friends," he said with a laugh.
Singer Amy Winehouse has lung damage and irregular heart beat, says her father.
Soul diva Amy Winehouse has damaged her lungs by smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes, her father said in an interview published Sunday.Winehouse collapsed this past week. Maybe she shouldn't have said "No" to rehab after all.
The Sunday Mirror quoted Mitch Winehouse as saying that Amy has an early stage emphysema and an irregular heartbeat, and has been warned that she will have to wear an oxygen mask unless she stops smoking drugs.
"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her," Mitch Winehouse was quoted as saying.
Legendary broadcaster Pat Summerall, 78, was resting comfortably Friday morning in an area hospital after undergoing emergency surgery to stop internal bleeding.
Cheri Summerall said doctors told her a new medicine her husband recently started taking didn't mix well with other medicines and induced the bleeding.It sounds like Summerall is going to have a good summer after all.
The surgery took place Thursday.
"He has really turned the corner," Mrs. Summerall said. "The doctors are thrilled with Pat's progress. We are expecting a full recovery."
Sean Connery has been injured in a fall while playing golf. He chipped a bone in his shoulder and has his arm in a sling. Connery, 77, took a tumble at an exclusive club in Westchester, New York.
Last night his spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer said: "He tripped while playing golf. He is not in hospital.We assume that Connery's injury is part of a larger plot to save the world from destruction. The man is simply unstoppable
"He is fine and enjoying visiting his family."
Connery was rushed to Northern Westchester Hospital in the Big Apple's Mount Kisco and released after treatment.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood brought together some of Hollywood's older living actors to celebrate and honor them last month. But one mom wasn't feeling her old chipper self.
The TV moms I interviewed on stage included Cloris Leachman ("Lassie." "Phyllis," "The Ellen Show"), Diahann Carroll ("Julia"), Marjorie Lord ("The Danny Thomas Show"), Marion Ross ("Happy Days"), Holland Taylor ("Two and a Half Men"), Tichina Arnold ("Everybody Hates Chris"), Bonnie Franklin ("One Day at a Time"), Catherine Hicks ("7th Heaven") and Meredith Baxter. Barbara Billingsley, age 93, ("Leave it to Beaver") was hospitalized and unable to attend, but was honored in absentia.We guess in this case for Billingsley it was "Make it or Leave it."
The cancer eating at former TCU, Texans and Chiefs great Sherrill Headrick has spread to his hip.
His wife, Mary Dale, writes that he continues to have coffee with his buddies, watches "his shows" in the afternoons and, come evenings, sits and waits for her on the front porch.This spread offense might turn out to be too much for Headrick to tackle.
There have been a growing number of rumors circulating about Paul Newman's health. The latest reports indicate that Newman is suffering from cancer.
Fears were growing for Paul Newman last night following US magazine reports that the Hollywood legend is fighting lung cancer. The double-Oscar winning star is said to have been diagnosed with the disease at New York’s Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, where he is an outpatient.He retired from acting last year citing failing memory as the reason. This is one part we are sure he will never forget.
Two US publications claim the 83-year-old actor, a former chain-smoker, is under the care of a leading oncologist. One quotes a family member as saying: “It’s so awful. He’s dying.” Last night a source who has known the family for years confirmed: “We have known he is seriously ill for several weeks but his loved ones are being very protective and saying very little.”
N.C. State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow is receiving chemotherapy again, she said Wednesday. Yow told WRAL she resumed chemotherapy six weeks ago.
She said she is likely to be on chemotherapy for three to four months and then, if all progresses well, will return to hormonal treatments.Yow's original diagnosis came way back in 1987. Her strength and composure should help her defeat this opponent from the inside.
Asked about side effects of chemotherapy, she said, “You always have some, but I certainly have a head start on dealing with some of them.”
Overall, she said, “I’m doing well.”
Things have taken a turn for the worse for Khieu Samphan.
A lawyer for the Khmer Rouge's former head of state says the 76-year-old is in serious condition at a hospital.We recall that the message of Remember The Titans was "Right Side, Strong Side."
Attorney Say Bory says Khieu Samphan has worsened and that he is now partly paralyzed on the left side of his body. He says his client "can speak but his words are unclear."
Don't you dare mess with Robert Byrd's State even once. His health state, that you can mess with three times in one half season.
Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) was admitted to the hospital for the third time this year on Monday night, this time for overnight observation after suffering a high fever. Byrd, 90, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, was taken to a Virginia hospital in the early evening and will stay there overnight after feeling ill throughout the day, spokesman Jesse Jacobs said. Jacobs said Byrd had felt “lethargic and sluggish” throughout the day, but attended the lone Senate vote of the day, at 5:30 p.m.Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, we begin to veto predictions that this is the end of the road for the Senator.
Shortly thereafter, Byrd went home and reported the same symptoms to his caregiver. The caregiver discovered that Byrd had a fever and consulted the senator’s physician, who recommended a hospital visit, Jacobs said.
Eleanor Mondale returned to the air today. She'd been on leave since late February when doctors discovered tumors in her brain. It's Mondale's second fight with brain cancer.
Minutes before Mondale and her colleague Susie Jones were reunited on air, Mondale held up her new t-shirt. The black shirt said simply, "I'm not dead yet."We're happy to hear that Mondale is back in the booth. We do find it strange, however, that she'd talk to her doctor while on the air. We hope the doctor screamed "Baba Booey" on air and quickly hung up.
"From Susie, my co-host, isn't that funny?" explained Mondale. "As long as the ink stays on the t-shirt, I think I'll be healthy."
Monday morning, Mondale thanked listeners for their kind notes during her medical leave. She also talked with her Mayo Clinic oncologist on the air.
Rumors abound about Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's health. So what's his deal exactly? Just ask his staff.
[He] is healthy and working normally, the interior minister said in remarks published on Monday, responding to comments on a recent reduction in the head of state's public engagements.Algerian newspapers began to wonder about the President after they noted his absences in recent weeks. Where has he been? The answers are kept in the Algerian Book of Secrets.
"The president of the republic is in perfect health and he is working normally," Liberte daily quoted the minister, Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, as saying on Sunday in answer to a reporter's question on a visit to the eastern town of Annaba.
Fresh off a new slate of health, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed is facing a different set of troubles posing risks to his life.
A mortar shell exploded Sunday near Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed's plane as it was preparing to take off from Mogadishu airport, officials and witnesses said. Three shells struck the airport and one exploded near the plane just after the president boarded it and was preparing to take off, an African Union peacekeeper at the airport said on condition of anonymity.So, we guess, despite his flair for the dramatics, Ahmed remains a plane, old guy.
"The president was in the plane to leave when the mortars hit the area," he said. "Fortunately, nobody was hurt."
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow, diagnosed with cancer three years ago, canceled a speaking appearance at Ohio's Ashland University because of an unspecified illness, the university announced Wednesday. The university said Snow's doctors have told him he cannot travel.It's starting to sound to us like Snow just doesn't like speaking at universities. Snow, now a CNN correspondent, seems to be out of touch with the students.
We've been giving fairly frequent updates about singer Russell Watson and the brain tumors he's successfully beaten in recent years. Now we find out that Watson thought at one time that he'd reached the end of his days.
“I was sliding into the MRI scanner, which is like a coffin, when I started thinking about my kids. I thought 'what are they going to do without their dad?’”So "The People's Tenor"'s tenure continues.
A spokesman for the Khmer Rouge tribunal says the regime's former head of state has been hospitalized for high blood pressure.
The spokesman says Khieu Samphan, 76, was taken Wednesday from his detention cell at the tribunal compound to a Phnom Penh hospital. Tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath says Khieu Samphan's condition was not considered extremely urgent but necessitated attention.Samphan is on trial for atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge when it ruled Cambodia in 1975-79, with some 1.7 million people dying from starvation, disease, overwork and execution.
The Serbian Orthodox Church's top body — the Holy Synod — has taken over running the church from the ailing Patriarch Pavle, the church said in a statement Saturday.
Patriarch Pavle, 93, has been hospitalized for months, suffering from heart and lung problems related to his age. No details have been published about his current health condition.Patriarch Pavle, you got Serbed!
Penn State coach Joe Paterno was taken to a hospital Thursday because of apparent dehydration and was expected to be released later in the day.
The 81-year-old coach was taken to Mount Nittany Medical Center by ambulance after feeling nauseated, said team spokesman Guido D'Elia. Paterno had not been admitted to the hospital and was "tapping his fingers, waiting to get out," D'Elia said. D'Elia added that Paterno would be released from the hospital at 6 p.m., after he passed a series of tests, including a stress test.In recent years, Paterno's health has been been called into question. But each year goes by that JoePa comes in like a Nittany Lion, refusing to go out like a lamb.
"It's no big deal," Jay Paterno said in a telephone interview. "If it's dehydration, he's probably all talked out."
When Kirk Douglas was a Hollywood star, we have no doubt that he enjoyed getting rave reviews. about his performances from others in the business. Now he's getting public adoration from his son, Michael, for his health.
Michael Douglas had dinner with his childhood pal, concert czar Don Law, when he was in town making “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.” Don inquired about the health of Michael’s dad, Kirk Douglas, and Michael told him the old man was doing great. “He’s 91 years old and he works out every day,” Douglas told Law. “His trainer is 94.”It sounds to us like Douglas is giving Jack LaLanne a run for his money. We figure that that race, if it was staged, would last no less than a couple of hours.
When Courtney Love calls someone at 3 a.m., who answers? The dispatcher from 911, that's who. She made a 3 a.m. trip on Friday to the emergency unit of LA's Cedars Sinai hospital complaining of laryngitis.
Love checked into the hospital on Friday morning after allegedly complaining about throat and chest pains. Doctors asked her about drugs and made her see a psychiatrist.It was revealed later in a statement that Love was suffering from strep throat. We think that she's looked "pretty worn out" for a long time now.
On the way home, despite her sore throat, she stopped to buy cigarettes. An onlooker told TMZ: “She looked pretty worn out".
