Two-time Big Brother winner Reggie Bird has taken to social media with a heartbreaking health update. The 48-year-old Gold Coast-based TV personality, who won the reality series in 2003 and again this year, told her 45,000 followers she had recently been diagnosed with Usher syndrome, a disease which impacts both hearing and vision. Bird, who … Read more
When loss of balance is characteristic of late-stage dementia, patients will sometimes adjust by changing their gait, or how they walk. Very often this adjustment involves shuffling, instead of lifting each foot to make a step, making falls more likely. Research published in the Journal of The American Geriatrics Society in 2016, even suggested that … Read more
Emma Caulfield Ford, known for portraying Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and Dotti on WandaVision, has revealed she has multiple sclerosis. “Once upon a time, I had zero health problems,” Caulfield Ford told Vanity Fair. “I woke up one morning and the left side of my face felt like … Read more
CNN — A diagnosis of dementia more than doubles the risk of suicide in the first three months after a patient is told the news, according to the latest research. The study, which followed nearly 600,000 English people for 18 years, found patients who already had a psychiatric condition, or who were younger than age … Read more
Tradie, 38, given six months to live after his HAIRDRESSER found a dodgy mole and pressured him to get it checked out by a specialist after doctors sent him home claiming ‘it was nothing’ A man has been diagnosed with cancer after his hairdresser noticed a mole Nicholas Smithson said two doctors failed to take … Read more
Katie Couric was diagnosed with breast cancer over the summer, and subsequently underwent surgery and radiation treatments that finished this week. As the former “CBS Evening News” and “Today” anchor explained in an essay published Wednesday by Katie Couric Media, where she shared her diagnosis for the first time, Couric learned of the cancer after … Read more
Katie Couric announced Wednesday that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in June and has undergone surgery and radiation treatment. In a first-person essay posted to her website, the news media personality, 65, said she received the Stage 1 diagnosis after missing an annual mammogram. “I felt sick and the room started to spin,” she … Read more